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Thursday, December 29, 2005
Justice Harlan's Dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson.
So I'm sitting here in Starbucks prepping for the coming semester, which includes Constitutional Law II. At my law school, Constitutional Law is separated between two semesters: the first semester involves federalism and national powers, and the second semester deals with individual liberties.
One of the cases we have to read in preparation for the first day of Constitutional Law II is Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896). Just a quick primer, the case dealt with the application of a Louisiana statute that provided for separate but equal railway carriages for white and "colored races."
The Supreme Court found in this case that the legislation was valid - and their reasoning suffers large loop holes. First and foremost, they draw the distinction that the Fourteenth Amendment was drafted to guarantee the equal protection of political rights but NOT social rights. Thus, the Louisiana statute was valid and permissibly - especially since "the most common instance of this is connected with the establishment of separate schools for white and colored children." 163 U.S. at 544.
Moreover, the Court proceeds to find that there is a "underlying fallacy" in the petitioner's argument. Id. at 551. That fallacy was "the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority. If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it." Id. The argument assumes that if "the colored race should become the dominant power in the state legislature, and should enact a law in precisely similar terms, it would thereby regulate the white race to an inferior position. We imagine that the white race, at least, would not acquiesce in this assumption." Id.
Oh how wrong I think the Court is. But what is most powerfully written is Justice Harlan's dissent. When writing legal briefs, law students learn to vary their tone and delivery. Once such mechanism is to use varying sentence structure - to bury in longer sentences unfavorable positions of law and to make short, succinct, and powerful the law that is favorable. Justice Harlan's dissent epitomizes this.
"In respect of civil rights, common to all citizens, the constitution of the United States does not, I think, permit any public authority to know the race of those entitled to be protected in the enjoyment of such rights. Every true man has pride of race, and under appropriate circumstances, when the rights of others, his equals before the law, are not to be affected, it is his privilege to express such pride and to take such action based upon it as to him seems proper. But I deny that any legislative body or judicial tribunal may have regard to the race of citizens when the civil rights of those citizens are involved. Indeed, such legislation as that here in question is inconsistent not only with that equality of rights which pertains to citizenship, national and state, but with the personal liberty enjoyed by every one within the United States.
The thirteenth amendment does not permit the withholding or the deprivation of any right necessarily inhering in freedom. It not only struck down the institution of slavery as previously existing in the United States, but it prevents the imposition of any burdens or disabilities that constitute badges of slavery or servitude. It decreed universal civil freedom in this country. This court has so adjudged. But, that amendment having been found inadequate to the protection of the rights of those who had been in slavery, it was followed by the fourteenth amendment, which added greatly to the dignity and glory of American citizenship, and to the security of personal liberty, by declaring that ‘all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside,’ and that ‘no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.’ These two amendments, if enforced according to their true intent and meaning, will protect all the civil rights that pertain to freedom and citizenship. Finally, and to the end that no citizen should be denied, on account of his race, the privilege of participating in the political control of his country, it was declared by the fifteenth amendment that ‘the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.'" Id. at 554-55.
"The white race deems itself to be the dominant race in this country. And so it is, in prestige, in achievements, in education, in wealth and in power. So, I doubt not, it will continue to be for all time, if it remains true to its great heritage and holds fast to the principles of constitutional liberty. But in view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful. The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved. It is, therefore to be regretted that this high tribunal, the final expositor of the fundamental law of the land, has reached the conclusion that it is competent for a State to regulate the enjoyment by citizens of their civil rights solely upon the basis of race." Id. at 559.
"The destinies of the two races, in this country, are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law. What can more certianly arouse race hate, what more certinaly create and perpetuate a feeling of distruct between these races, than state enactments, which, in fact, proceed on the ground that colored citizens are so inferior and degraded that they cannot be allowed to sit in public coaches occupied by white citizens?"
There are other relevant portions to his dissent, but these last two paragraphs I have posted are most powerful, most amazing, and most promising. This is a man that was alive and on the bench in 1896, and yet forward thinking enough to understand the fact that the law is color-blind, and that the legislatures should not be allowed to draw distinctions with regard to the race. Moreover, from this view, we can understand also why anytime legislation enacts so "pernicious" a classification as race, it must be for a "government compelling interest" and must be "narrowly tailored" such as not to trammel the rights of those not brought under the statute.
Moreover, this particularly resounds deeply for me and shows that there is indeed hope for a great equality in this country, especially as a gay, Asian law student.
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Camping in the Wild: Africa
Posted by WorldWalk-Peacetour at 7:00 PM Labels: africa, camping, mauritania, morocco, senegal, western-sahara
In Africa and particularly in the Sahara Desert one of the most important prerequisits of camping in the wild is always met: there’s room. The trouble comes when you have to put up or protect the tents.
by FERENC IVANICS
In Morocco it was always easy to find a nice camp site, we usually camped in forests—which became more and more fragmented as we walked south. We had problems near populated areas, but not with humans. Near Casablanca while putting up our tents we noticed lots of small, black balls. Next morning we weren’t awoke by a rooster crowing but sheep baaing near our tents. Sheep eat anything they find, especially in Africa where dried out, yellowish-green grass is their main course. When we noticed them, we had to get out of our tents quickly and drive away the animals, which were already tasting the skins of our home.
Apart of the domesticated animals there was another “enemy”, smaller but deadlier: scorpions. You can see scorpions of various sizes and colors. The more you travel south, the bigger they are. We had to close every small cracks and gaps and slots: with zippers, velcros, anything. You have to inspect very carefully the bottom of your tents every morning, and get rid of the arthropods that had spent the night there. That was quite a scary process at first but later became a dull routine.
The desert—doesn’t really matter if it’s in Morocco, Western-Sahara or Mauritania—is an enormous but poorly equipped camping. There’s space, but virtually there’s nothing else. Without soil we had to invent methods to fix the tents many times, and it was a tiresome job. It’s easy to drive stakes into the sand but they slip out just as easily. And in rocky deserts there’s no way you can drive the stakes into the ground. We used stones—their size depended on the strength of the ever-blowing wind—to hold the cords. I suppose there’s specialized tents for sand or snow, but we had what we had.
To use this method we needed stones. And sometimes it turned out to be hard to find them. Near the Moroccan-Mauritanian border we virtually camped on a landmine-field for ten days. Collecting stones on a mine-field is like playing Russian roulette, so no, thank you.
Near Essaouira there were no stones around. It was almost dark when we found some dry branches that the locals use to stabilize sand dunes. We borrowed some to stabilize our tents.
When we reached the savannah after crossing the Sahara desert it was like reaching the mountain meadows in Austria. All-in-all, we didn’t run into puzzling camp site related situations in Senegal. We camped in the wild without experiences worth mentioning.
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Camping in the Wild: Europe
Posted by WorldWalk-Peacetour at 9:00 PM Labels: austria, camping, europe, france, germany, hungary, spain
One of the recurring problems for the WorldWalkers in Europe was how to find a good camping spot every night. At the end of the day’s walk there was not much time to look for a perfect place before dark in those heavily populated areas.
by FERENC IVANICS
To be able to walk many dozens of miles you need a a good night’s sleep. To have a good night’s sleep you need to find a good camp site. When the weather’s not on our side we sleep in our tents, so we have to put them up. To put up the tents, to drive the stakes (pegs) into the ground we need to find proper soil, a more or less flat area with enough space for our tents. We cannot neglect the opinions of the local authorities either, walking for a good cause doesn’t mean that they always overlook the illegal nature of camping in the wild.
We’d recommend places near less traveled roads, grassy stripes at the edge of fields or forests, these were our favorite places.
In Hungary we camped many times on cultivated fields. It’s OK if it’s not recently seeded, you cannot really do any harm to the crops. Once, after a longer stage we had to find a camp site when it was well into the night. While assembling our tents we discovered that it wasn’t such a good idea camping on the field right next to the road... It had been recently fertilized with completely organic fertilizers. Next day we spent hours wiping the horsecrap off of the bottom of our tents.
We celebrated our last night before crossing the Hungaro-Austrian border in the field you see on the picture above. It was a fine place to stay, plain, comfortble. We slept like babies, not disturbed by the fact that it was raining during the whole night. To our surprise, thanks to the clayey soil we spent a few hours taking down the tents with pounds of slippery mud on our feet.
Our experiences in Austria were fairly similar until we reached the Alps. The mountain meadows were like luxury hotels compared to the fields, and they were quite common. Quiet, calm, silky smooth grass, putting up the tent was a child’s play. No one felt offended by our stay, we had a good time there.
In Germany we got used to camping in vast forests instead of meadows. These camp spots were just as luxurious as their Austrian comrades. Cheery clearings, milennium oaks, calm, just like in Goethe’s poem, the Wanderer’s Nightsong.
Wanderer’s Nightsong II
Up there all summits
are still.
In all the tree-tops
you will
feel but the dew.
The birds in the forest stopped talking.
Soon, done with walking,
you shall rest, too.
One night, our sleep was calm until we started to hear some kind of snorting and the noise of breaking branches in the middle of the night. The noises were getting louder and their source was getting closer to us, it was getting quite scary in the woods. And we became even more scared when we figured out that a hog herd was passing around our tents. They were feeding on the acorn of the millenary oaks. We got awake and alert in a moment. Those minutes in the dark felt like a lifetime, but finally our noisy and hungry guests left our home.
In France we got used to another unexpected difficulty. According to our plans we should have had arrived to Spain by then to spend the colder winter months there. But we started the tour with a month’s delay and winter cold had arrived early that year. We lived our coldest night in November of 2007. The skin of the tent was frozen stiff even before putting it up. We were unable to get a sleep in 25°F cold. We had all our clothes on, yet spent the whole night awake, shiwering. By morning there was ice even on the inside of the skin of the tent.
Our cheap tents and sleeping bags weren’t able to protect us from the cold, we managed to get along with proper food: fatty, high calorie meals, good French red wine.
Spain welcomed us with mountains and rocky soil, absolutely inapt for camping. But when we reached the orange and tangerine plantations of Valencia we arrived to heaven, almost. Fortunately orange thiefs rarely carry tents with them and almost never spend the night on the crime scene, so we weren’t mistaken for them, had no trouble with angry orange farmers.
Though our main interest was to find a place to sleep, we ate tons of oranges as well. And it radically changed our metabolism. :) Once a local farmer surprised us during a breakfast, we were a tiny little bit scared, but he was telling us: ‘tranquilo, tranquilo’. Even though we didn’t know what the words meant, we got the message. Orange prices were so low, it wasn’t even worth to harvest. Anyways, Valencia provided us with bed and breakfast. And oranges from Valencia are the best oranges in the world. We mean it!
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Rainy Weather in Málaga
Posted by WorldWalk-Peacetour at 3:00 PM Labels: europe, photos, spain, weather
Last week the weather was horrible in Málaga. The WorldWalkers took shelter in the mountains in their tents. Their new camp site offered them a chance to take some amazing photos of the weather and they made the best of it. No tornado shots, just some really heavy rain storm clouds and sunshine. They promised to provide us some rainbow images next time. :)
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Exclusive Beggars
Posted by WorldWalk-Peacetour at 6:00 PM Labels: budget, europe, spain
Due to the global financial and economic crisis the brothers haven’t managed to find a temporary job in Málaga so far. They are not alone, hundreds try to find a job there with even less hope. So their only chance is begging.
And Ferenc and István do it in an enthusiastic and professional way, they really are exclusive beggars.
by FERENC IVANICS
We just received the 1000 euro donation of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians. We are really grateful, thank you. It’s a big step, but according to our calculations this won’t be enough for the USA. Apart from the flight tickets we have to pay for the visas, we have to eat, sleep somewhere, buy new shoes, etc. Currently there is absolutely no chance for us to find a temporary job, so we have decided to beg, or—if you fancy these kinds of euphemisms—to ask for small donations. For the last weeks we have studied this profession in theory, our tutor was János Molnár, a Hungarian guy from Transylvania, who was telling us most of his knowledge and best practices. And there were, of course, many other teachers, friends who gave us advices. We chose one of the most traditional methods: a board with a description of our difficulties and a request for some help.
We worked for two long nights in our tents, we tried to be as prepared as possible. We didn’t want to be one of the many beggars in the city, but the WorldWalkers in trouble—who we are, indeed. So our objective was to create a very show-and-tellesque propaganda, and we didn’t waste our time to achieve our goal. The result was amazing. Other beggars stared unbelievingly at our donation equipment. We became exclusive beggars.
Our very special tool is the dynamic counter, which shows our financial necessities and the amount already collected.
First we tried our luck in front of the El Corte Inglés shopping mall. To our surprise, nobody was interested in our action, it was very disappointing. After a small analysis and discussion we thought that the customers of this shopping mall were always in a hurry, they had no time for beggars, not even for exclusive ones. We tried to find a quieter place that was busy enough at the same time. So we went into the city center of Málaga. The start was very slow but promising.
The first day there we got 32 euros, the next day 43 euros, so it seemed to work. You might think that it’s easy. But I have to tell you: it’s not, it’s a very hard job. We stand, sit or squat the entire day, and it’s very exhaustive mentally as well. Time passes slowly, the weather is cold, but there’s a hope we can collect the missing piece of our budget and finally fly on to North America. We wouldn’t do it if we saw another option. But we don’t.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Gear: What You Need to Walk Around the Earth
Posted by WorldWalk-Peacetour at 4:10 PM Labels: budget, camping, equipment,
Walking and backpacking around the Earth is an extremely strong load test on your gear. But you have a real chance to prove its quality or its flaws: The brothers walked and put up their tents in France in frost, in the Sahara in 100 °F, they were hit by a hard thunderstorm in Austria, and a much harder sand storm in Africa, they spent many days among high mountains in the Alps, wandered on huge plains in France and in wild forests in Germany. I can say that they checked their gear in every imaginable situation. After the European and the African stage of the trip we’ll try to summarize their experiences and opinions about their tents, sleeping bags, backpacks, mats, trousers and shoes. Also, a new continent’s ahead, new soils, new climate. Probably they have to replace some of their equipment before moving on.
Tents: An Indispensable Base
Your tent is your home during backpacking. And if you backpack for 6 years, you try to choose the perfect one. Sometimes you succeed, sometimes you don’t.
The boys bought their tents an InterSport shop for about 120 euros (US$150). These are McKinley Compact Light 2 tents, a run-out model, but there’s a similar one on the official McKinley page: the Enduro Light. The manufacturer’s description:
Ultra-lightweight tunnel tent for 2 people, ideal for travelling and on trekking and cycle tours. Outer skin made of PU-coated polyester, all seams sealed with seam tape, 3,000 mm water column. 1 entrance, 2 frame arches made of aluminium. Tent pegs made of aluminium.
2 frame arches made of aluminium: It became obvious soon enough that these arches hadn’t been designed for everyday use. When you put up the tent you have to bend these pipes to the arch shape, and when you dismantle your tent in the morning these are straightened again. It was too much for them, in a month they were beginning to break one by one. Of course they were very-very light, but useless.
That time Ferenc and István were working in Spain on a construction of a house in the mountains. The foundations of that house was made of reinforced concrete. They got some rebars, and made their own frame arches. These arches were pre-bent by them and covered by many plastic tapes to keep the skin and the floor of the tent safe. The advantages of these arches were obvious: they’re very stable, no winds or storms beat them. The disadvantages are obvious, too: they’re damn heavy. So our advice to the manufacturer: please, pre-bend the arches, and don’t force the backpackers to bend them.
Tent pegs made of aluminium: This seems to be a joke, here you have the photos of them. Aluminium is too soft, the tip of the pegs became dull soon, they bend easily and can harm your hands.
Zippers: These are far too weak, ideal for a schoolbag, but not for a tent that is to be used in Africa. Somewhere in Mauritania they even had to saw a velcro to keep out the mosquitos (they seemed to be infected by malaraia).
Skin: The strong-point of these tents, there was no trouble with it whatsoever. Now there are some holes, protection from rain isn’t perfect, but the life of these tents haven’t been easy at all. So that’s just fine.
Sleeping Bag: Like Napoleon Bonaparte
“The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world”, Napoleon Bonaparte said once.
The Denali Alpine 19 sleeping bags of the WorldWalkers were purchased in the same InterSport shop, unfortunately they can’t recall its price. The manufarturer’s comments:
Sleeping bag suitable for Alpine conditions, ideal companion while mountain climbing and on trekking and Alpine tours. The comfort range lies between +3°C and -3°C, the extreme range lies at -19°C. The double layer concept offers maximum loft and heat retention qualities. Ergonomic hood with corded seam at forehead, padded heat collar, shoulder extension and thermally enhanced foot part ensure optimum heat retention qualities. Excellent sleeping comfort through the use of robust, lightweight and breathable materials.
Ferenc and István have been very satisfied with the product, so far. As the manufacturer promised it provides comfort down to 25 °F. It needs a small space when packed, and it’s light enough. There was only one disadvantage revealed: the zippers, again. These are a bit stronger then the tents’, but they’ve been giving up. And the winter in Málaga is cold enough.
Backpack: A Snail’s Life
Snails carry their shell (i.e. their “house”) on their backs, in a similar way the brothers carry all their personal stuff on their backs. And to make their life as comfotable as possible, they needed a fine backpack. They have been using Quecha Forclaz backpacks for a while, and they are fully satisfied with them. Zippers are placed in the middle of the backpack, so you can easily reach the inner parts. If you need your foorth bottle of water in the desert, it’s really handy that you don’t have to get out the three empty bottles to find the full one. The raincoat was a bit surprising for then. The backpack itself is not water-resistant, if you want to make it water-resistant, you have to cover it. Close to the fasteners the textile has begun to break, and a couple of the many zippers broke down already, but these backpacks have survived the Sahara, so there’s nothing to complain about.
Accessories
Mats: They provide comfort and protection from cold. The polyethylene foam sleeping mats or mattresses were a present. They’re quite good, nothing extraordinary, though.
Hiking Hats: They’re from Quecha again, a brand that combines affordable prices with acceptable durability. These hats were really important for Ferenc an István in the desert, they were durable and they protected their head, face and neck from sunshine. And it was pretty easy to keep them clean as well, a rinse of clean water did the job. The nape flap could be a bit bigger to fully cover the ears, a light wind can blow it off. After the extremely strong usage it’s a bit ragged—mostly where the visor joins the hat, but it’s OK.
Trousers: Another peace of the equipment from Quechua. They’re worth their price, they survived half a year in the Sahara. They’re light, breathable and comfortable. But after half a year they decay very fast, you can’t repair or patch them. There were some weird color changes, the trousers of Ferenc became white-yellow, István’s: yellow-green. They’re easy to wash, they dry in a reasonable time. A good choice.
Shoes: For the Walking Part
Running Shoes: Their first shoes were Nike Dart V running shoes. They had survived more than 2.000 miles, nothing was wrong, there were only small flaws: the rubber of the tips separated, the softer materials gave up, but all these were repairable.
The death of these shoes arrives when the hard rubber layer on the sole of the shoes wears away. There is only a soft spongy layer under—or above—it. These shoes aren’t designed for long periods of walking, they can heat-up very much. And you know heat means sweat, and blisters will surely appear. Sweat means stinky shoes as well, so you have to wash them regularly, but it’s not easy to dry them. They are comfortable, strong and relatively cheap, the boys repeated and purchased identical pairs to replace their worn-out first ones.
Hiking Shoes: Their third pairs were Salomon Exit Aeros. These are not running but hiking shoes. The sole of them seemes to be too hard, but after a couple of miles it became acceptable, but not that comfortable as the sole of the Nike. Their uppers are surprisingly tough, although the mesh parts are a bit weak.
The shoes let the boys’ feet breathe, but let the sand of the desert in, too. And sand between your toes is not what you call a pleasant experience. Its sole was strong enough, and due to the breathable uppers, their feet were less hot, less stinky. These shoes not a bad choice, but the WorldWalkers are not sure, if they will buy them again.
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Walking around the world in six years. That means 25.000 miles (40.000 km) on five continents: Europe, Africa, the Americas, Australia and Asia. Two brothers—Ferenc and István Ivanics—walk 15-25 miles a day to reach their goal: to arrive home. To arrive home after going around our planet Earth, to arrive home after meeting many different people in many countries. People who live in different cultures, in different environments. People who have one very important common wish: peace. Peace, that is the final goal of the WorldWalk project. And the key is friendship and brotherhood, this is the message they'd like to share, try to tell everybody, every person living on our mother Earth.
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Camping in the Wild: Africa
Posted by WorldWalk-Peacetour at 7:00 PM Labels: africa, camping, mauritania, morocco, senegal, western-sahara
In Africa and particularly in the Sahara Desert one of the most important prerequisits of camping in the wild is always met: there’s room. The trouble comes when you have to put up or protect the tents.
by FERENC IVANICS
In Morocco it was always easy to find a nice camp site, we usually camped in forests—which became more and more fragmented as we walked south. We had problems near populated areas, but not with humans. Near Casablanca while putting up our tents we noticed lots of small, black balls. Next morning we weren’t awoke by a rooster crowing but sheep baaing near our tents. Sheep eat anything they find, especially in Africa where dried out, yellowish-green grass is their main course. When we noticed them, we had to get out of our tents quickly and drive away the animals, which were already tasting the skins of our home.
Apart of the domesticated animals there was another “enemy”, smaller but deadlier: scorpions. You can see scorpions of various sizes and colors. The more you travel south, the bigger they are. We had to close every small cracks and gaps and slots: with zippers, velcros, anything. You have to inspect very carefully the bottom of your tents every morning, and get rid of the arthropods that had spent the night there. That was quite a scary process at first but later became a dull routine.
The desert—doesn’t really matter if it’s in Morocco, Western-Sahara or Mauritania—is an enormous but poorly equipped camping. There’s space, but virtually there’s nothing else. Without soil we had to invent methods to fix the tents many times, and it was a tiresome job. It’s easy to drive stakes into the sand but they slip out just as easily. And in rocky deserts there’s no way you can drive the stakes into the ground. We used stones—their size depended on the strength of the ever-blowing wind—to hold the cords. I suppose there’s specialized tents for sand or snow, but we had what we had.
To use this method we needed stones. And sometimes it turned out to be hard to find them. Near the Moroccan-Mauritanian border we virtually camped on a landmine-field for ten days. Collecting stones on a mine-field is like playing Russian roulette, so no, thank you.
Near Essaouira there were no stones around. It was almost dark when we found some dry branches that the locals use to stabilize sand dunes. We borrowed some to stabilize our tents.
When we reached the savannah after crossing the Sahara desert it was like reaching the mountain meadows in Austria. All-in-all, we didn’t run into puzzling camp site related situations in Senegal. We camped in the wild without experiences worth mentioning.
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Camping in the Wild: Europe
Posted by WorldWalk-Peacetour at 9:00 PM Labels: austria, camping, europe, france, germany, hungary, spain
One of the recurring problems for the WorldWalkers in Europe was how to find a good camping spot every night. At the end of the day’s walk there was not much time to look for a perfect place before dark in those heavily populated areas.
by FERENC IVANICS
To be able to walk many dozens of miles you need a a good night’s sleep. To have a good night’s sleep you need to find a good camp site. When the weather’s not on our side we sleep in our tents, so we have to put them up. To put up the tents, to drive the stakes (pegs) into the ground we need to find proper soil, a more or less flat area with enough space for our tents. We cannot neglect the opinions of the local authorities either, walking for a good cause doesn’t mean that they always overlook the illegal nature of camping in the wild.
We’d recommend places near less traveled roads, grassy stripes at the edge of fields or forests, these were our favorite places.
In Hungary we camped many times on cultivated fields. It’s OK if it’s not recently seeded, you cannot really do any harm to the crops. Once, after a longer stage we had to find a camp site when it was well into the night. While assembling our tents we discovered that it wasn’t such a good idea camping on the field right next to the road... It had been recently fertilized with completely organic fertilizers. Next day we spent hours wiping the horsecrap off of the bottom of our tents.
We celebrated our last night before crossing the Hungaro-Austrian border in the field you see on the picture above. It was a fine place to stay, plain, comfortble. We slept like babies, not disturbed by the fact that it was raining during the whole night. To our surprise, thanks to the clayey soil we spent a few hours taking down the tents with pounds of slippery mud on our feet.
Our experiences in Austria were fairly similar until we reached the Alps. The mountain meadows were like luxury hotels compared to the fields, and they were quite common. Quiet, calm, silky smooth grass, putting up the tent was a child’s play. No one felt offended by our stay, we had a good time there.
In Germany we got used to camping in vast forests instead of meadows. These camp spots were just as luxurious as their Austrian comrades. Cheery clearings, milennium oaks, calm, just like in Goethe’s poem, the Wanderer’s Nightsong.
Wanderer’s Nightsong II
Up there all summits
are still.
In all the tree-tops
you will
feel but the dew.
The birds in the forest stopped talking.
Soon, done with walking,
you shall rest, too.
One night, our sleep was calm until we started to hear some kind of snorting and the noise of breaking branches in the middle of the night. The noises were getting louder and their source was getting closer to us, it was getting quite scary in the woods. And we became even more scared when we figured out that a hog herd was passing around our tents. They were feeding on the acorn of the millenary oaks. We got awake and alert in a moment. Those minutes in the dark felt like a lifetime, but finally our noisy and hungry guests left our home.
In France we got used to another unexpected difficulty. According to our plans we should have had arrived to Spain by then to spend the colder winter months there. But we started the tour with a month’s delay and winter cold had arrived early that year. We lived our coldest night in November of 2007. The skin of the tent was frozen stiff even before putting it up. We were unable to get a sleep in 25°F cold. We had all our clothes on, yet spent the whole night awake, shiwering. By morning there was ice even on the inside of the skin of the tent.
Our cheap tents and sleeping bags weren’t able to protect us from the cold, we managed to get along with proper food: fatty, high calorie meals, good French red wine.
Spain welcomed us with mountains and rocky soil, absolutely inapt for camping. But when we reached the orange and tangerine plantations of Valencia we arrived to heaven, almost. Fortunately orange thiefs rarely carry tents with them and almost never spend the night on the crime scene, so we weren’t mistaken for them, had no trouble with angry orange farmers.
Though our main interest was to find a place to sleep, we ate tons of oranges as well. And it radically changed our metabolism. :) Once a local farmer surprised us during a breakfast, we were a tiny little bit scared, but he was telling us: ‘tranquilo, tranquilo’. Even though we didn’t know what the words meant, we got the message. Orange prices were so low, it wasn’t even worth to harvest. Anyways, Valencia provided us with bed and breakfast. And oranges from Valencia are the best oranges in the world. We mean it!
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Rainy Weather in Málaga
Posted by WorldWalk-Peacetour at 3:00 PM Labels: europe, photos, spain, weather
Last week the weather was horrible in Málaga. The WorldWalkers took shelter in the mountains in their tents. Their new camp site offered them a chance to take some amazing photos of the weather and they made the best of it. No tornado shots, just some really heavy rain storm clouds and sunshine. They promised to provide us some rainbow images next time. :)
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Exclusive Beggars
Posted by WorldWalk-Peacetour at 6:00 PM Labels: budget, europe, spain
Due to the global financial and economic crisis the brothers haven’t managed to find a temporary job in Málaga so far. They are not alone, hundreds try to find a job there with even less hope. So their only chance is begging.
And Ferenc and István do it in an enthusiastic and professional way, they really are exclusive beggars.
by FERENC IVANICS
We just received the 1000 euro donation of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians. We are really grateful, thank you. It’s a big step, but according to our calculations this won’t be enough for the USA. Apart from the flight tickets we have to pay for the visas, we have to eat, sleep somewhere, buy new shoes, etc. Currently there is absolutely no chance for us to find a temporary job, so we have decided to beg, or—if you fancy these kinds of euphemisms—to ask for small donations. For the last weeks we have studied this profession in theory, our tutor was János Molnár, a Hungarian guy from Transylvania, who was telling us most of his knowledge and best practices. And there were, of course, many other teachers, friends who gave us advices. We chose one of the most traditional methods: a board with a description of our difficulties and a request for some help.
We worked for two long nights in our tents, we tried to be as prepared as possible. We didn’t want to be one of the many beggars in the city, but the WorldWalkers in trouble—who we are, indeed. So our objective was to create a very show-and-tellesque propaganda, and we didn’t waste our time to achieve our goal. The result was amazing. Other beggars stared unbelievingly at our donation equipment. We became exclusive beggars.
Our very special tool is the dynamic counter, which shows our financial necessities and the amount already collected.
First we tried our luck in front of the El Corte Inglés shopping mall. To our surprise, nobody was interested in our action, it was very disappointing. After a small analysis and discussion we thought that the customers of this shopping mall were always in a hurry, they had no time for beggars, not even for exclusive ones. We tried to find a quieter place that was busy enough at the same time. So we went into the city center of Málaga. The start was very slow but promising.
The first day there we got 32 euros, the next day 43 euros, so it seemed to work. You might think that it’s easy. But I have to tell you: it’s not, it’s a very hard job. We stand, sit or squat the entire day, and it’s very exhaustive mentally as well. Time passes slowly, the weather is cold, but there’s a hope we can collect the missing piece of our budget and finally fly on to North America. We wouldn’t do it if we saw another option. But we don’t.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Gear: What You Need to Walk Around the Earth
Posted by WorldWalk-Peacetour at 4:10 PM Labels: budget, camping, equipment,
Walking and backpacking around the Earth is an extremely strong load test on your gear. But you have a real chance to prove its quality or its flaws: The brothers walked and put up their tents in France in frost, in the Sahara in 100 °F, they were hit by a hard thunderstorm in Austria, and a much harder sand storm in Africa, they spent many days among high mountains in the Alps, wandered on huge plains in France and in wild forests in Germany. I can say that they checked their gear in every imaginable situation. After the European and the African stage of the trip we’ll try to summarize their experiences and opinions about their tents, sleeping bags, backpacks, mats, trousers and shoes. Also, a new continent’s ahead, new soils, new climate. Probably they have to replace some of their equipment before moving on.
Tents: An Indispensable Base
Your tent is your home during backpacking. And if you backpack for 6 years, you try to choose the perfect one. Sometimes you succeed, sometimes you don’t.
The boys bought their tents an InterSport shop for about 120 euros (US$150). These are McKinley Compact Light 2 tents, a run-out model, but there’s a similar one on the official McKinley page: the Enduro Light. The manufacturer’s description:
Ultra-lightweight tunnel tent for 2 people, ideal for travelling and on trekking and cycle tours. Outer skin made of PU-coated polyester, all seams sealed with seam tape, 3,000 mm water column. 1 entrance, 2 frame arches made of aluminium. Tent pegs made of aluminium.
2 frame arches made of aluminium: It became obvious soon enough that these arches hadn’t been designed for everyday use. When you put up the tent you have to bend these pipes to the arch shape, and when you dismantle your tent in the morning these are straightened again. It was too much for them, in a month they were beginning to break one by one. Of course they were very-very light, but useless.
That time Ferenc and István were working in Spain on a construction of a house in the mountains. The foundations of that house was made of reinforced concrete. They got some rebars, and made their own frame arches. These arches were pre-bent by them and covered by many plastic tapes to keep the skin and the floor of the tent safe. The advantages of these arches were obvious: they’re very stable, no winds or storms beat them. The disadvantages are obvious, too: they’re damn heavy. So our advice to the manufacturer: please, pre-bend the arches, and don’t force the backpackers to bend them.
Tent pegs made of aluminium: This seems to be a joke, here you have the photos of them. Aluminium is too soft, the tip of the pegs became dull soon, they bend easily and can harm your hands.
Zippers: These are far too weak, ideal for a schoolbag, but not for a tent that is to be used in Africa. Somewhere in Mauritania they even had to saw a velcro to keep out the mosquitos (they seemed to be infected by malaraia).
Skin: The strong-point of these tents, there was no trouble with it whatsoever. Now there are some holes, protection from rain isn’t perfect, but the life of these tents haven’t been easy at all. So that’s just fine.
Sleeping Bag: Like Napoleon Bonaparte
“The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world”, Napoleon Bonaparte said once.
The Denali Alpine 19 sleeping bags of the WorldWalkers were purchased in the same InterSport shop, unfortunately they can’t recall its price. The manufarturer’s comments:
Sleeping bag suitable for Alpine conditions, ideal companion while mountain climbing and on trekking and Alpine tours. The comfort range lies between +3°C and -3°C, the extreme range lies at -19°C. The double layer concept offers maximum loft and heat retention qualities. Ergonomic hood with corded seam at forehead, padded heat collar, shoulder extension and thermally enhanced foot part ensure optimum heat retention qualities. Excellent sleeping comfort through the use of robust, lightweight and breathable materials.
Ferenc and István have been very satisfied with the product, so far. As the manufacturer promised it provides comfort down to 25 °F. It needs a small space when packed, and it’s light enough. There was only one disadvantage revealed: the zippers, again. These are a bit stronger then the tents’, but they’ve been giving up. And the winter in Málaga is cold enough.
Backpack: A Snail’s Life
Snails carry their shell (i.e. their “house”) on their backs, in a similar way the brothers carry all their personal stuff on their backs. And to make their life as comfotable as possible, they needed a fine backpack. They have been using Quecha Forclaz backpacks for a while, and they are fully satisfied with them. Zippers are placed in the middle of the backpack, so you can easily reach the inner parts. If you need your foorth bottle of water in the desert, it’s really handy that you don’t have to get out the three empty bottles to find the full one. The raincoat was a bit surprising for then. The backpack itself is not water-resistant, if you want to make it water-resistant, you have to cover it. Close to the fasteners the textile has begun to break, and a couple of the many zippers broke down already, but these backpacks have survived the Sahara, so there’s nothing to complain about.
Accessories
Mats: They provide comfort and protection from cold. The polyethylene foam sleeping mats or mattresses were a present. They’re quite good, nothing extraordinary, though.
Hiking Hats: They’re from Quecha again, a brand that combines affordable prices with acceptable durability. These hats were really important for Ferenc an István in the desert, they were durable and they protected their head, face and neck from sunshine. And it was pretty easy to keep them clean as well, a rinse of clean water did the job. The nape flap could be a bit bigger to fully cover the ears, a light wind can blow it off. After the extremely strong usage it’s a bit ragged—mostly where the visor joins the hat, but it’s OK.
Trousers: Another peace of the equipment from Quechua. They’re worth their price, they survived half a year in the Sahara. They’re light, breathable and comfortable. But after half a year they decay very fast, you can’t repair or patch them. There were some weird color changes, the trousers of Ferenc became white-yellow, István’s: yellow-green. They’re easy to wash, they dry in a reasonable time. A good choice.
Shoes: For the Walking Part
Running Shoes: Their first shoes were Nike Dart V running shoes. They had survived more than 2.000 miles, nothing was wrong, there were only small flaws: the rubber of the tips separated, the softer materials gave up, but all these were repairable.
The death of these shoes arrives when the hard rubber layer on the sole of the shoes wears away. There is only a soft spongy layer under—or above—it. These shoes aren’t designed for long periods of walking, they can heat-up very much. And you know heat means sweat, and blisters will surely appear. Sweat means stinky shoes as well, so you have to wash them regularly, but it’s not easy to dry them. They are comfortable, strong and relatively cheap, the boys repeated and purchased identical pairs to replace their worn-out first ones.
Hiking Shoes: Their third pairs were Salomon Exit Aeros. These are not running but hiking shoes. The sole of them seemes to be too hard, but after a couple of miles it became acceptable, but not that comfortable as the sole of the Nike. Their uppers are surprisingly tough, although the mesh parts are a bit weak.
The shoes let the boys’ feet breathe, but let the sand of the desert in, too. And sand between your toes is not what you call a pleasant experience. Its sole was strong enough, and due to the breathable uppers, their feet were less hot, less stinky. These shoes not a bad choice, but the WorldWalkers are not sure, if they will buy them again.
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by Alex Constantine
PART ONE: General Electric, ChoicePoint - Key Interlocking Fascist Directorates - and Kenneth Langone
The Patriot Act ran the Congressional gauntlet like greased pork, untouched and unread, so civil libertarians opened it up and poked through its oleaginous mass prior to passage, wiped their hands, and came away with a nagging sense of deja vu - but by the time the obvious comparisons to the rise of National Socialism were made, the act was voted into law.
Then as now, the federal vaults swung open and revenue gushed through
redirected banking channels, washed through hidden corporate and "homeland security" funds, ultimately lapping on the shores of select world-class criminals, a transfer of fluid capital worthy of German and American Robber Barons alike.
Two of the principal American backers of the Nazi regime were General
Electric and ITT. Both multinationals were represented on the boards of IG
Farben, the corporation that conspired to put Adolf Hitler in power (we find the same symbiosis at ChoicePoint – the corporation that conspired to put George W. Bush in power).
TIME MACHINE
After 1915, International General Electric (I.G.E.) in New York, researcher Nhan Myrick informs us, "acted as the foreign investment, manufacturing, and selling organization for the General Electric Company." I.G.E. held a 25 to 30-percent interest in German General Electric (A.E.G.), and holdings in a company called Osram in Berlin.
The holdings gave I.G.E. four directors on the board of A.E.G., and another at Osram, "and significant influence in the internal domestic policies of these German companies. The significance of this General Electric ownership is that A.E.G. and Osram were prominent suppliers of funds for Hitler in his rise to power in Germany in 1933."
Farben, of course, was the most generous German-American financial underwriter of Hitler. "Several directors of A.E.G. were also on the board of I.G. Farben." The sinister luminaries included Hermann Bucher, chairman of A.E.G., also on the I.G. Farben board, and A.E.G. directors Julius Flechtheim and Walter von Rath. "I.G. Farben contributed 30 percent of the 1933 Hitler National Trusteeship (or takeover) fund."
Accumulatoren Fabrik A-G "was a Hitler contributor with two directors on the A.E.G. board, August Pfeffer and Gunther Quandt. Quandt personally owned 75 percent of Accumulatoren Fabrik..."1
The nameplates may have changed over time, but fascism has been a geopolitical constant since it was conceived by Mussolini in the 1920s, and
so have the political intrigues of General Electric.
At ChoicePoint, preceding the "election" of GW Bush, there was Richard "Killer Pimp" Armitage. Another CP director: Kenneth Langone, also a director at GE - who interlocked with the ChoicePoint directorate.
Langone received his MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York
University. He was the founder of Invemed Associates, LLC, and Home Depot, Inc. Langone has been on the board of the New York Stock Exchange, DBT Online, Inc., InterWorld Corporation, TRICON Global Restaurants, Inc. and Unifi, Inc.
He's is a familiar face in New York politics, one of the principal fund-raisers for Rudolph Giuliani in his senate race against Hillary Clinton.
Langone's place wasn't limited to backstair deal-making, however.
During the campaign, New Yorkers switched on their television sets to see a
commercial featuring a bimbo with a heavy southern drawl, dressed in a suit,
crooning over a hot, gummy pizza called the Big New Yorker. "How do I know so much about New York pizza?" she asks. "'Cause, New York, I want to be your next senator!" A New York cop exults, "$9.99! What do they think this is, Arkansas?"2 Pizza Hut was owned by TRICON, a company under Langone's directorship.
Did the GE-ChoicePoint director's support for New York's take-charge mayor have anything to do with the fact that Rudy's mentor was none other than Adnan Khashoggi's attorney, Mr. Robert G. Morvillo, or that all three were movers in the same CIA-Mafia-corporate-Big-Boy net that has given rise to scores of headline-grabbing political scandals in the last few decades?
Robert G. Morvillo
He is the name partner of Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason & Silberberg, a
40-lawyer firm he established in 1973. Among his other well-known clients
was Rep. Robert Garcia, convicted of extortion in the 1989 Wedtech scandal.
In another bribery case, he won acquittal in 1987 for John Zaccaro, husband
of former Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro.
He also represented the Saudi financier Adnan Khashoggi, alleged to have siphoned money from the Philippines for Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos but acquitted with them in a federal case. Two years ago he represented Robert Iler, who played the son of Tony Soprano of the HBO series The Sopranos,' on a robbery charge (he got probation). In the 1960s and 1970s, Morvillo served in the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York. He was a chief trial assistant in the fraud unit there, and then chief of the
criminal division, where he mentored a young assistant U.S. attorney named
Rudolph Giuliani."3
All contributions to Giuliani were handled by New York City Public-Private
Initiatives Inc. (PPI), headed by Ms. Tamra Lhota. "As its name suggests,"
Newsday reports, "the corporation falls into a fuzzy area among the government, the business and the philanthropic worlds, where city officials can arrange private financing for pet projects without directly soliciting funds, which would be illegal."4
Tamra Roberts Lhota was a fundraiser in all three of Giuliani's runs for
mayor. She ran PPI, according to the CUNY Clarion, "to raise private money for public projects.... PPI established and initially ran the Twin Towers Fund, which benefits the families of members of the City's uniformed services who were lost in the WTC disaster.... Members include Richard Grasso of the NY Stock Exchange, real estate magnate Jerry Speyer, NY Mets owner Fred Wilpon and former deputy mayor Peter Powers. Past PPI board members have included Henry Kissinger [and] David Rockefeller."5 Judith Nathan - Giuliani's highly-publicized "companion" through his messy divorce - was an unpaid board member. And Langone was there, of course.6
"This is shadow government," Peter Bienstock, a lawyer who chaired a state
investigation of PPI, told Newsday. "That investigation's report, issued in 1990, said of such nonprofits, authorities and foundations: Although these entities are all created by governments to serve a public purpose ... their transactions are generally not subject to normal government oversight and control. Over time, they have collectively become, in effect, a shadow government, quite powerful but little known and understood,' the study said."7
Back at his alma mater NYU, where he was a trustee, there was some
hand-wringing over Langone's association with the university. The campus
newspaper reports, "two NYU trustees who also serve on the board of the New York Stock Exchange pose a serious conflict of interest to the proper
functioning of the Big Board.... The report, released in July, also
spotlights NYU trustee Richard Grasso, who resigned last Wednesday as
chairman of the stock exchange amid criticism that a $140 million
compensation and retirement benefits package he was set to receive was too
large. The Council of Institutional Investors released the report, which
questions Sexton's ability to act impartially while serving on the stock
exchange's nominating committee.... The report cites numerous other
potentially compromising connections among board members and those on the nominating committee, beside those related to NYU. A serious overlap'
exists between the 27 board members and those on the nominating committee, Brentley said.... The council's report found only one nominating committee member with no obvious connection to the board.' Outside relationships exist among board members themselves, according to the council's report, which cited 24 such connections. Grasso had ties to five other members, Langone had relationships with four and Fink was connected to one other person, the report said."8
A few months later, Langone's Invemed, a Wall Street securitues brokerage,
was also in trouble with regulators. The company, it seems, had a close
relationship with the Credit Suisse Group dating to the 1980s. The New York
Times found that the companies together managed the shares for a company financed by Langone. Thereby, Invemed "would introduce companies that would issue stock to Credit Suisse, and then Credit Suisse would give a percentage of shares in a larger firm the group was managing to Invemed. According to The New York Times, in March 2000, Invemed participated in 50 new stock issues, more than 90 percent of which were underwritten by Credit Suisse."9
Credit Suisse ...
TIME MACHINE
"2000: In mid year, the two largest banks in Switzerland, UBS and Credit
Suisse, approved a "1.25 billion-dollar global settlement aimed at ending
the long-running dispute over Holocaust assets..." - "GOVERNMENTS'
COMPLICITY IN THE NAZI HOLOCAUST: France, Germany, and Switzerland"10
NOTES
1) Nhan Myrick, General Electric Funded Hitler," Rense.com, September 26,
2004.
http://www.rense.com/general57/ge.htm
2) "Hillary Panned by Pizza Hut," originally printed in the Times of London,
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:PjEte6AcJ70J:ojr.usc.edu/content/ejc.cfm%3Frequest%3D116+%22kenneth+langone%22+and+%22Rudolph+Giuliani%22
3) "Robert G. Morvillo,"
http://www.crimlaw.org/defbrief281.html
4) Dan Janison, "New York City's Shadow Government," New York Newsday,
12/27/99.
5) "CUNY's Board of Trustees: The Powers That Be,"
http://www.psc-cuny.org/ClarionBOT.htm
6) Stephanie Saul, "Rudy's WTC Fund Tied To Nathan's Firm," Newsday,
February 9, 2002.
7) Janison.
8) Xana OíNeill, "Unease with trustees NYU-NYSE link called suspect,"
nyunews.com, September 23, 2003.
9) Elisabeth Salemme, Langone '57 accused of securities fraud,' Bucknellian
(school newspaper), April 25, 2003.
10) http://www.religioustolerance.org/holo_apol.htm
PART TWO: ChoicePoint Admits Foreknowledge of 9/11
by Alex Constantine
PART ONE: General Electric, ChoicePoint - Key Interlocking Fascist Directorates - and Kenneth Langone
The Patriot Act ran the Congressional gauntlet like greased pork, untouched and unread, so civil libertarians opened it up and poked through its oleaginous mass prior to passage, wiped their hands, and came away with a nagging sense of deja vu - but by the time the obvious comparisons to the rise of National Socialism were made, the act was voted into law.
Then as now, the federal vaults swung open and revenue gushed through
redirected banking channels, washed through hidden corporate and "homeland security" funds, ultimately lapping on the shores of select world-class criminals, a transfer of fluid capital worthy of German and American Robber Barons alike.
Two of the principal American backers of the Nazi regime were General
Electric and ITT. Both multinationals were represented on the boards of IG
Farben, the corporation that conspired to put Adolf Hitler in power (we find the same symbiosis at ChoicePoint – the corporation that conspired to put George W. Bush in power).
TIME MACHINE
After 1915, International General Electric (I.G.E.) in New York, researcher Nhan Myrick informs us, "acted as the foreign investment, manufacturing, and selling organization for the General Electric Company." I.G.E. held a 25 to 30-percent interest in German General Electric (A.E.G.), and holdings in a company called Osram in Berlin.
The holdings gave I.G.E. four directors on the board of A.E.G., and another at Osram, "and significant influence in the internal domestic policies of these German companies. The significance of this General Electric ownership is that A.E.G. and Osram were prominent suppliers of funds for Hitler in his rise to power in Germany in 1933."
Farben, of course, was the most generous German-American financial underwriter of Hitler. "Several directors of A.E.G. were also on the board of I.G. Farben." The sinister luminaries included Hermann Bucher, chairman of A.E.G., also on the I.G. Farben board, and A.E.G. directors Julius Flechtheim and Walter von Rath. "I.G. Farben contributed 30 percent of the 1933 Hitler National Trusteeship (or takeover) fund."
Accumulatoren Fabrik A-G "was a Hitler contributor with two directors on the A.E.G. board, August Pfeffer and Gunther Quandt. Quandt personally owned 75 percent of Accumulatoren Fabrik..."1
The nameplates may have changed over time, but fascism has been a geopolitical constant since it was conceived by Mussolini in the 1920s, and
so have the political intrigues of General Electric.
At ChoicePoint, preceding the "election" of GW Bush, there was Richard "Killer Pimp" Armitage. Another CP director: Kenneth Langone, also a director at GE - who interlocked with the ChoicePoint directorate.
Langone received his MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York
University. He was the founder of Invemed Associates, LLC, and Home Depot, Inc. Langone has been on the board of the New York Stock Exchange, DBT Online, Inc., InterWorld Corporation, TRICON Global Restaurants, Inc. and Unifi, Inc.
He's is a familiar face in New York politics, one of the principal fund-raisers for Rudolph Giuliani in his senate race against Hillary Clinton.
Langone's place wasn't limited to backstair deal-making, however.
During the campaign, New Yorkers switched on their television sets to see a
commercial featuring a bimbo with a heavy southern drawl, dressed in a suit,
crooning over a hot, gummy pizza called the Big New Yorker. "How do I know so much about New York pizza?" she asks. "'Cause, New York, I want to be your next senator!" A New York cop exults, "$9.99! What do they think this is, Arkansas?"2 Pizza Hut was owned by TRICON, a company under Langone's directorship.
Did the GE-ChoicePoint director's support for New York's take-charge mayor have anything to do with the fact that Rudy's mentor was none other than Adnan Khashoggi's attorney, Mr. Robert G. Morvillo, or that all three were movers in the same CIA-Mafia-corporate-Big-Boy net that has given rise to scores of headline-grabbing political scandals in the last few decades?
Robert G. Morvillo
He is the name partner of Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason & Silberberg, a
40-lawyer firm he established in 1973. Among his other well-known clients
was Rep. Robert Garcia, convicted of extortion in the 1989 Wedtech scandal.
In another bribery case, he won acquittal in 1987 for John Zaccaro, husband
of former Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro.
He also represented the Saudi financier Adnan Khashoggi, alleged to have siphoned money from the Philippines for Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos but acquitted with them in a federal case. Two years ago he represented Robert Iler, who played the son of Tony Soprano of the HBO series The Sopranos,' on a robbery charge (he got probation). In the 1960s and 1970s, Morvillo served in the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York. He was a chief trial assistant in the fraud unit there, and then chief of the
criminal division, where he mentored a young assistant U.S. attorney named
Rudolph Giuliani."3
All contributions to Giuliani were handled by New York City Public-Private
Initiatives Inc. (PPI), headed by Ms. Tamra Lhota. "As its name suggests,"
Newsday reports, "the corporation falls into a fuzzy area among the government, the business and the philanthropic worlds, where city officials can arrange private financing for pet projects without directly soliciting funds, which would be illegal."4
Tamra Roberts Lhota was a fundraiser in all three of Giuliani's runs for
mayor. She ran PPI, according to the CUNY Clarion, "to raise private money for public projects.... PPI established and initially ran the Twin Towers Fund, which benefits the families of members of the City's uniformed services who were lost in the WTC disaster.... Members include Richard Grasso of the NY Stock Exchange, real estate magnate Jerry Speyer, NY Mets owner Fred Wilpon and former deputy mayor Peter Powers. Past PPI board members have included Henry Kissinger [and] David Rockefeller."5 Judith Nathan - Giuliani's highly-publicized "companion" through his messy divorce - was an unpaid board member. And Langone was there, of course.6
"This is shadow government," Peter Bienstock, a lawyer who chaired a state
investigation of PPI, told Newsday. "That investigation's report, issued in 1990, said of such nonprofits, authorities and foundations: Although these entities are all created by governments to serve a public purpose ... their transactions are generally not subject to normal government oversight and control. Over time, they have collectively become, in effect, a shadow government, quite powerful but little known and understood,' the study said."7
Back at his alma mater NYU, where he was a trustee, there was some
hand-wringing over Langone's association with the university. The campus
newspaper reports, "two NYU trustees who also serve on the board of the New York Stock Exchange pose a serious conflict of interest to the proper
functioning of the Big Board.... The report, released in July, also
spotlights NYU trustee Richard Grasso, who resigned last Wednesday as
chairman of the stock exchange amid criticism that a $140 million
compensation and retirement benefits package he was set to receive was too
large. The Council of Institutional Investors released the report, which
questions Sexton's ability to act impartially while serving on the stock
exchange's nominating committee.... The report cites numerous other
potentially compromising connections among board members and those on the nominating committee, beside those related to NYU. A serious overlap'
exists between the 27 board members and those on the nominating committee, Brentley said.... The council's report found only one nominating committee member with no obvious connection to the board.' Outside relationships exist among board members themselves, according to the council's report, which cited 24 such connections. Grasso had ties to five other members, Langone had relationships with four and Fink was connected to one other person, the report said."8
A few months later, Langone's Invemed, a Wall Street securitues brokerage,
was also in trouble with regulators. The company, it seems, had a close
relationship with the Credit Suisse Group dating to the 1980s. The New York
Times found that the companies together managed the shares for a company financed by Langone. Thereby, Invemed "would introduce companies that would issue stock to Credit Suisse, and then Credit Suisse would give a percentage of shares in a larger firm the group was managing to Invemed. According to The New York Times, in March 2000, Invemed participated in 50 new stock issues, more than 90 percent of which were underwritten by Credit Suisse."9
Credit Suisse ...
TIME MACHINE
"2000: In mid year, the two largest banks in Switzerland, UBS and Credit
Suisse, approved a "1.25 billion-dollar global settlement aimed at ending
the long-running dispute over Holocaust assets..." - "GOVERNMENTS'
COMPLICITY IN THE NAZI HOLOCAUST: France, Germany, and Switzerland"10
NOTES
1) Nhan Myrick, General Electric Funded Hitler," Rense.com, September 26,
2004.
http://www.rense.com/general57/ge.htm
2) "Hillary Panned by Pizza Hut," originally printed in the Times of London,
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:PjEte6AcJ70J:ojr.usc.edu/content/ejc.cfm%3Frequest%3D116+%22kenneth+langone%22+and+%22Rudolph+Giuliani%22
3) "Robert G. Morvillo,"
http://www.crimlaw.org/defbrief281.html
4) Dan Janison, "New York City's Shadow Government," New York Newsday,
12/27/99.
5) "CUNY's Board of Trustees: The Powers That Be,"
http://www.psc-cuny.org/ClarionBOT.htm
6) Stephanie Saul, "Rudy's WTC Fund Tied To Nathan's Firm," Newsday,
February 9, 2002.
7) Janison.
8) Xana OíNeill, "Unease with trustees NYU-NYSE link called suspect,"
nyunews.com, September 23, 2003.
9) Elisabeth Salemme, Langone '57 accused of securities fraud,' Bucknellian
(school newspaper), April 25, 2003.
10) http://www.religioustolerance.org/holo_apol.htm
PART TWO: ChoicePoint Admits Foreknowledge of 9/11
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Michael Moore's latest project You Tube... My Letter to the Editor...
["CNN: Wall Street 'Better Watch Out' for Michael Moore"; as submitted to You Tube by mmflint on 2/17/09; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7FfPrf-X_Q]
Letter to the Editor - sent out (one never knows who will actually publish it) to a number of different papers today [I also sent another one out, but I won't zap you with two :)
Bottom line, if I can do this stuff, You probably can (check out the links in the sidebar!) too!
Letter:
"Enough of this greed on Wall Street! Enough of this pathetic whining that banks need more bailout money! Enough of me having to go pawn old jewelry to TRY to pay MY taxes! I think the Vampires have sucked up quite enough of the people's labor, trust and blood - don't you? Let the big banks that have been exploiting (in my opinion) the American people (via unjust usury and all sorts of trickery) "go bust." Help out the smaller banks, if you must, but with serious accountability and low CEO incomes as part of the package! And - consider the people too! Because, as far as I'm concerned I'm (along with a whole lot of other people) owed some money by at least some of the big guys on Wall Street, simply because their unethical (at best) and corrupt (at worst) practices have been such an absolute and total (America is better than this!) disgrace...
If I want to donate blood, I'll go to the local blood-bank, thank you very much! At least they pass it on (as is expected) to others that are in need!
Come on folks! Get a grip! This is about humane principals, accountability, justice and the future of the United States of America! And there aren't any intelligent people that I know of - with the true facts in hand (and no greedy self-serving agenda up their sleeve...) that would support anymore big-bank bailouts!
In fact, I keep hearing from the wise and the weary (we are becoming anemic, I fear...) that it is the low to mid-income American people (just take a good look around!) that really need bailouts! That it is, in fact, the American family (Don't we deserve a break?) that represents the only TRUE "not-for-profit" institution in America - and that as this mystery of sad history continues to unfold... the Government might want to consider sending some of the monies exploited via the all-too-often abused not-for-profit industry (check their books too, will ya? Especially the "religious" non-profits...) on to the American people, as well!
Signing off... I have to go take my folic acid pill...
Anyone else having trouble just staying ALIVE?
[Perhaps vampires, like tics, tend to burst after gorging themselves like this?]
Ah, one can HOPE..."
NS
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pinchas werba said...
I serendipitously found this site and I'd like to say that I agree with your sentiments 100%. I especially feel that it’s certainly criminal the way big business interests award all the bonuses to CEO’s who have nothing but failure to show for their efforts. Whether it’s paid with pre-bailout money or actual bailout bucks it’s nothing less than "LEGALIZED EMBEZZLEMENT" any way they slice their American Pie--they get the hot-out- of-the-oven best pieces for doing nothing but sitting on their fat butts scheming and dreaming of more ways to compound their profit margins on bungled/bundled mortgages or Ponzi pyramid plots while we, the people, don't even get the crumbs because they lick the pie plate then trash that, so no trace exists except in their gormandized, distended bellies and then down the t/bowls the next day. Organized religion, like tax-avoiding organized crime black market specialists, has skated for free long enough and has become too separated from the reality of Economics 101. If you want to live in a democratic society that chugs along on the theory of progressive taxation and capitalism there are no free rides whether you are Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Shinto, or whatever. Enough is enough already—rabbis, priests, pastors, clerics, imams turn over your tithes to the government before we all go to hell in a “hardcasket” or hand basket. To echo Dennis Kucinich—Wake up, America, even the alarm clocks are armed and in a dangerous state or are in an alarmed state and cannot function, figuratively speaking. There are plenty of mature adults and responsible children who need no mechanical means to awaken themselves so they can go out there into the world to try and make a difference and not emulate the greedy bastards who only care for themselves and merely pay lip service to their pledge to follow the code of ethics and to uphold the constitution whether they’re on Wall Street, in city halls, either house of the legislature or in oval offices (past). The only fee paid is the lip service one therefore none in this place where the original description of the settlers in the ‘new world’ used by the ones whose land we stole was ‘white man speak with forked tongue’ so this bifurcated mouth tool used to express our thoughts and schemes is still alive and well in the legalized crooks abounding all around us.
February 20, 2009 4:59 AM
N.S. said...
Wow, you are a powerful writer! And you had me sitting here crying (a good thing, because demonstrations of compassion, courage and integrity tend to ignite my tears...) again (I also cried when re-watching the PINK video we discussed below).
I guess my blog doesn't quite fit the strictly political (nor partisan) script... so it doesn't get airtime through that venue...
And it doesn't strictly fit (since I do deal with a lot of social / economic / political issues here) in the creative / artistic venue either...
So either I have to tip folks off about it... or they tend to stumble (like you apparently did) upon it by accident.
I guess the newspapers (having a very difficult economic time of it, as well) might view us bloggers as competitors... and thus (?) they won't publish our blogsite addresses (I have found this to be the case, anyhow) when we write letters to the paper, etc.
I don't see bloggers as news competitors, however - at all. I LOVE newspapers! I simply think we bloggers are able to wholistically (via music, video clips, etc.) and interactively add another dimension...
Anyhoot, off to start my day...
I can't thank you enough for your posts. They are truly well written and inspiring...
Sometimes (I guess this is part of the tears too...) this seems like a really lonesome (albeit creative; and I hope, contributive) journey.
Keep shining!
NS
February 20, 2009 5:19 AM
pinchas werba said...
tears of justice served
are prisms of perspective unnerved
where the tiny lachrymal crystals
cleanse our souls and baptize our brains
out of attempted brainwashing basins
to the ether of eternity
in the upper-most mindful section
where the Almighty was conceived
in either of our respective images
whether we got the message from our Creator
and were endowed with sacred or inalienable rights
we as a nation not of sheep on the compost heap
but as sentient thinking humans must right the wrongs
left on our bloodstained hearts by Bush
by bringing him to court and let the people decide…
February 20, 2009 6:16 AM
N.S. said...
pinchas werba,
Would you mind if I placed your comments / poem on a posting of their own (most likely accompanied by a photo from my stock and/or a video)?
You have a LOT to say and you say it (are you a published writer?) EXTREMELY WELL.
I don't need to know your identity. Your screen name and permission to "blog" this will do...
What do you think?
With much respect,
NS
February 20, 2009 9:38 AM
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Poem ["Sunday Screw"; N.S.; iUniverse; 2007; P. 5 (Reformatted for Inclusion Here)]
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Vice:
----- Anger is gnawing, like a rat, at your insides;
----- Envy and lust breed within, stifled cancers;
----- Gluttony and greed await your command miss;
----- Sloth says don't listen; he promises warm bliss.
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-------- I feel no anger; only love grows within me;
-------- Envy and lust, sir, are traits of a beast.
-------- I live to serve, not to gain, for my God sir,
-------- I labor for all; why don't you do the same?
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----- Your heart is pounding in concert with mine.
----- I believe you are lying, your bright eyes revealing,
----- Hungers and passions your words would deny.
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-------What you say is not true, sir!
Vice:
----- Oh yes, dear, I'd say,
----- You are caught in a biblical snare.
----- Seven sins court you; this garden deceives you;
----- You stroll through a grand serpent's lair.
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------- Your sins, they mean nothing to me.
------- My heart is pure; I have nothing to fear;
------- Leave me now; just let me be!
Vice: (Laughs then and shakes her)
----- You self-righteous fool!
----- You had a choice of great sins!
----- But instead you choose pride,
----- The prettiest lie.
----- And your torment my dear, just begins...
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[Someone (most likely aligned with the rich, the powerful, and/or one of their favored institutions)] would probably lock my as* up...
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[Until] I twitched like bacon on a hot burner...
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So, what is up with "that?"
My pink and yellow flamingo "Godette" - a transexual bird that likes to wear spiked heals, by the way...
[Never] tells me to eat shi*...
[Doesn't] shi* on me...
[And] doesn't advocate or tolerate any kind of exploitation, abuse, or murder...
But then, perhaps that is the problem.
Do ya' think?"
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Does the mind matter when we pay "what matters" (honesty, kindness, respect, human dignity...) little mind?
Is the power of suggestion, deception, Orwellian "group-think," brainwashing, "mind control," and intensive social engineering [what] witchcraft and religion are really all about?
If your mom and pop "Voodooed..."
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[Do] you think you'd...
Voodoo too?"
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"Amongst all else that has been put forth here, the number of poor children in the United States of America had increased - by 2004 - under Born Again Fundamental-Evangelical President George Bush Jr.'s "divine" guidance - by over 500,000...
[More] children were counted among the homeless than at any point since the Great Depression...
[College] tuition costs (particularly at the Community College level) jumped considerably...
[The] number of personal bankruptcies (often due to an inability to pay medical bills) increased radically...
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[Were] slammed into prison cells at ever-increasing and alarming rates...
[Whilst] corporate criminals were able to get away with the equivalent of socio-economic genocide and/or murder...
[And] the requirements for outside "objective" oversight and reporting in association with a number of State and Federal departments... were radically reduced or eliminated...
[An] all out "War on the Poor" (A. Huffington; "Fanatics and Fools..."; P. 340) ...
[Apparently] underway..."
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
Michael Moore's latest project You Tube... My Letter to the Editor...
["CNN: Wall Street 'Better Watch Out' for Michael Moore"; as submitted to You Tube by mmflint on 2/17/09; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7FfPrf-X_Q]
Letter to the Editor - sent out (one never knows who will actually publish it) to a number of different papers today [I also sent another one out, but I won't zap you with two :)
Bottom line, if I can do this stuff, You probably can (check out the links in the sidebar!) too!
Letter:
"Enough of this greed on Wall Street! Enough of this pathetic whining that banks need more bailout money! Enough of me having to go pawn old jewelry to TRY to pay MY taxes! I think the Vampires have sucked up quite enough of the people's labor, trust and blood - don't you? Let the big banks that have been exploiting (in my opinion) the American people (via unjust usury and all sorts of trickery) "go bust." Help out the smaller banks, if you must, but with serious accountability and low CEO incomes as part of the package! And - consider the people too! Because, as far as I'm concerned I'm (along with a whole lot of other people) owed some money by at least some of the big guys on Wall Street, simply because their unethical (at best) and corrupt (at worst) practices have been such an absolute and total (America is better than this!) disgrace...
If I want to donate blood, I'll go to the local blood-bank, thank you very much! At least they pass it on (as is expected) to others that are in need!
Come on folks! Get a grip! This is about humane principals, accountability, justice and the future of the United States of America! And there aren't any intelligent people that I know of - with the true facts in hand (and no greedy self-serving agenda up their sleeve...) that would support anymore big-bank bailouts!
In fact, I keep hearing from the wise and the weary (we are becoming anemic, I fear...) that it is the low to mid-income American people (just take a good look around!) that really need bailouts! That it is, in fact, the American family (Don't we deserve a break?) that represents the only TRUE "not-for-profit" institution in America - and that as this mystery of sad history continues to unfold... the Government might want to consider sending some of the monies exploited via the all-too-often abused not-for-profit industry (check their books too, will ya? Especially the "religious" non-profits...) on to the American people, as well!
Signing off... I have to go take my folic acid pill...
Anyone else having trouble just staying ALIVE?
[Perhaps vampires, like tics, tend to burst after gorging themselves like this?]
Ah, one can HOPE..."
NS
Posted by N.S. at 12:09 PM
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pinchas werba said...
I serendipitously found this site and I'd like to say that I agree with your sentiments 100%. I especially feel that it’s certainly criminal the way big business interests award all the bonuses to CEO’s who have nothing but failure to show for their efforts. Whether it’s paid with pre-bailout money or actual bailout bucks it’s nothing less than "LEGALIZED EMBEZZLEMENT" any way they slice their American Pie--they get the hot-out- of-the-oven best pieces for doing nothing but sitting on their fat butts scheming and dreaming of more ways to compound their profit margins on bungled/bundled mortgages or Ponzi pyramid plots while we, the people, don't even get the crumbs because they lick the pie plate then trash that, so no trace exists except in their gormandized, distended bellies and then down the t/bowls the next day. Organized religion, like tax-avoiding organized crime black market specialists, has skated for free long enough and has become too separated from the reality of Economics 101. If you want to live in a democratic society that chugs along on the theory of progressive taxation and capitalism there are no free rides whether you are Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Shinto, or whatever. Enough is enough already—rabbis, priests, pastors, clerics, imams turn over your tithes to the government before we all go to hell in a “hardcasket” or hand basket. To echo Dennis Kucinich—Wake up, America, even the alarm clocks are armed and in a dangerous state or are in an alarmed state and cannot function, figuratively speaking. There are plenty of mature adults and responsible children who need no mechanical means to awaken themselves so they can go out there into the world to try and make a difference and not emulate the greedy bastards who only care for themselves and merely pay lip service to their pledge to follow the code of ethics and to uphold the constitution whether they’re on Wall Street, in city halls, either house of the legislature or in oval offices (past). The only fee paid is the lip service one therefore none in this place where the original description of the settlers in the ‘new world’ used by the ones whose land we stole was ‘white man speak with forked tongue’ so this bifurcated mouth tool used to express our thoughts and schemes is still alive and well in the legalized crooks abounding all around us.
February 20, 2009 4:59 AM
N.S. said...
Wow, you are a powerful writer! And you had me sitting here crying (a good thing, because demonstrations of compassion, courage and integrity tend to ignite my tears...) again (I also cried when re-watching the PINK video we discussed below).
I guess my blog doesn't quite fit the strictly political (nor partisan) script... so it doesn't get airtime through that venue...
And it doesn't strictly fit (since I do deal with a lot of social / economic / political issues here) in the creative / artistic venue either...
So either I have to tip folks off about it... or they tend to stumble (like you apparently did) upon it by accident.
I guess the newspapers (having a very difficult economic time of it, as well) might view us bloggers as competitors... and thus (?) they won't publish our blogsite addresses (I have found this to be the case, anyhow) when we write letters to the paper, etc.
I don't see bloggers as news competitors, however - at all. I LOVE newspapers! I simply think we bloggers are able to wholistically (via music, video clips, etc.) and interactively add another dimension...
Anyhoot, off to start my day...
I can't thank you enough for your posts. They are truly well written and inspiring...
Sometimes (I guess this is part of the tears too...) this seems like a really lonesome (albeit creative; and I hope, contributive) journey.
Keep shining!
NS
February 20, 2009 5:19 AM
pinchas werba said...
tears of justice served
are prisms of perspective unnerved
where the tiny lachrymal crystals
cleanse our souls and baptize our brains
out of attempted brainwashing basins
to the ether of eternity
in the upper-most mindful section
where the Almighty was conceived
in either of our respective images
whether we got the message from our Creator
and were endowed with sacred or inalienable rights
we as a nation not of sheep on the compost heap
but as sentient thinking humans must right the wrongs
left on our bloodstained hearts by Bush
by bringing him to court and let the people decide…
February 20, 2009 6:16 AM
N.S. said...
pinchas werba,
Would you mind if I placed your comments / poem on a posting of their own (most likely accompanied by a photo from my stock and/or a video)?
You have a LOT to say and you say it (are you a published writer?) EXTREMELY WELL.
I don't need to know your identity. Your screen name and permission to "blog" this will do...
What do you think?
With much respect,
NS
February 20, 2009 9:38 AM
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The League of Women Voter's of the Mid-Hudson Valley Region is hosting a "brunch meeting" at 15-21 Franklin Street {Everette Hodge Center} on Saturday, 2/21/09 / 10am -Noon. If you would like info. about the League, or would like to volunteer for the League's "observer corps", see the local League website at http://midhudson.ny.lwvnet.org/ This is a non-partisan group - and at this meeting the pros and cons of the Electoral College and direct voting will be discussed.
KAPA Com., Bob Smith, at Kingston MuddyCup Inaug. Party [Click Photo to Link to "What a Wonderful..
Singing "What a Wonderful World" [Photo (Copyrighted) by NS]
EVENT ANNOUCEMENT [EVENT DATE: This Saturday, 2/21/09] [KAPA FUNDRAISER]
This Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009, Keegan Ales, 7PM: "Public Access [KAPA / Channel 23 / Your Local Public Access TV Channel!] Awards and Fundraising Gala" - $40 per ticket / Music by Sonando - email jsmith37@hvc.rr.com or contact any of the KAPA Commissioners for tickets and/or more info.
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Click Photo to "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" You Tube]
Photo (Copyrighted) by NS
CHECK THIS OUT... [AIR AMERICA BROADCAST]
Air America Politically Direct David Bender Sheldon Whitehouse
Inauguration Poster-Photo 2009 [Click Photo for Pres. Obama's Weekly Address 2/13/09]
"Thank You Obama-Biden!" Photo / Copyright by NS
POLLS, POLLS, POLLS...
YOUR "VOICE" MATTERS!
Do You Think the City of Kingston Should Fund (Do Their Part) Kingston Area Public Access (KAPA / Channel 23) TV?
KINGSTON ACTIVISM / Click Photo to Link to "A Peaceful Solution - Willie Nelson..." You Tube
Photo [Copyrighted by BF (Utilized with Permission)]
TAKE ACTION: Kingston Citizens Organization Alderman and Ward Info / Communications / Contact
Kingston Citizens. Org / Alderman Al Teetsel, Ward 1
Kingston Citizens. Org / Alderman Thomas R. Hoffay, Ward 2
Kingston Citizens. Org / Alderman Charles Landi, Ward 3
Kingston Citizens. Org / Alderman Shirley Whitlock, Ward 4
Kingston Citizens. Org / Alderman Ann Marie DiBella, Ward 5
Kingston Citizens. Org / Alderman Ron Polacco, Ward 6
Kingston Citizens. Org / Alderman Bill Reynolds, Ward 7
Kingston Citizens. Org / Alderman Bob Senor, Ward 8
Kingston Citizens. Org / Alderman Mike Madsen, Ward 9
Do You Believe the Proposed Cigarette Tax Rate Hike Reeks of Class Discrimination and/or a Violation of our Civil Rights?
Links Through Which You Can Protest the Proposed Hike in Taxes (Yet Again) on Cigarettes
To contact President Obama / Whitehouse.Gov/Contact
Senate.Gov
Do You Believe the Peanut Corporation in Atlanta Georgia (Alleged Peanut / Toxic Foods Issue...) Should be Allowed to Claim Bankruptcy?
GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT
The opportunity to attend workshops about the "Fiscal Year 2009 Annual Action Plan" and City of Kingston's "Annual Community Development Block Grant" have (to my knowlege) passed. However, applications for proposed funding will reputedly be accepted until 2/27/09. For more information, contact Michael Murphy, Community Development Director, at the Office of Community Development [845-334-3930].
Do You Support Funding Initiatives for Comprehensive Family Planning and Associated Educational / Awareness Programs
LINKS TO HEALTHCARESTAT (CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES!!)
HealthCare STAT -- Protecting Patients' Rights and Access to Care in Ulster County
Links Associated With Most Recent Blog Posting [Regarding "Separation of Church and State..."
"Obama creates faith-based office with wide mission" - Road Runner
"President Obama’s Remarks at National Prayer Breakfast" - NYTimes.com
(Mother) "Theresa" You Tube
Freedom From Religion [and/or "religious tyranny"] Foundation
"Newdow Seeks 1000 New Plaintiffs in Inaugural Lawsuit..." Blogspot
"Bill Maher's 'Religulous'" You Tube
"In Tibet, it’s just the facts, ma’am" ("World Blog"; mssnbc.com")
"Larry King Live: Bill Maher on the Economy, the Obamas, Palin and Biden" You Tube
"Chavez wins vote to scrap term limits in Venezuela" Road Runner
"Bill Maher On The Ten Commandments"
"Religious police crack down on Saudi valentines... Holiday celebration is banned..."
"Bill Maher, Real Time season premeire Fri. Feb. 20th"
Wikipedia.org - "Lords Resistance Army"
"Bill Maher on Mormonism and Religion in Politics" You Tube
Do You Believe the Office of Faith Based Initiatives... (Even Expanded and Renamed) Violates the Constitutional Mandate of Separation of Church and State?
Do You Think BlackWater USA (Now Under a "New Name") and Similar Organizations (Highly Paid,,, Allegedly Less Than Ethical...) Should be Shut Down and Sincerely Investigated?
Do You Believe Former President Bush Jr. and Some Members of His Administration Violated the US Constitution, Bill of Rights and/or International Treaties?
If G. Bush Jr. and/or Others Did Violate Any or All of the Above, Do You Believe They Should Be Prosecuted to the Fullest Extent of the Law?
JUSTICE... WANT SOME?
Hold the Bush Administration Accountable.
JUSTICE... WANT SOME?
credoaction.com/campaign/accountability_commission/?r_by=-1835068-oNzHxpx&rc=confemail
Hope: One Word Says It All... Obama-Biden 2009" [Click Photo to Link to "One Hope.." / You Tube]
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TAKE ACTION... [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
LWV Take Action Governor David Paterson
LWV Take Action President Barack Obama
LWV Take Action Rep. Maurice Hinchey
LWV Take Action Rep. Nancy Pelosi
LWV Take Action Sen. Charles Schumer
LWV Take Action Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
LWV Take Action Senator Charles Schumer
New York Dems
New York State Assembly - Members
Ulster County Government County Executive Mike Hein
Ulster County Legislature Members Contact Info
One of Our Premier Community Activists / Kingston City Dem. Alderwoman
At the Kingston MuddyCup Inauguration Party / Photo (Copyrighted; Utilized with Permission) by N.S.
Economic Reinvestment and Recovery Plan... Keeping You Up to Date...
Recovery.Gov / Updates Re. Stimulus
Two of Our Premier Community Activists [a Dem Alderman and a Rep. with a Heart of Gold]
At the Kingston MuddyCup Inauguration Party; Photo (Copyrighted; Permissions Granted) by NS
To My "Sisters": I received this on MySpace and it was so beautiful I wanted to pass it on...
"... The lady reading this is beautiful, classy and strong... Help her live [] life to the fullest [] Promote her and cause her to excel above her expectations [] Help her shine in the darkest places [] Protect her at all times..."
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Reading Poem At Obama Inaugural Party / Click Photo to Link to One of The Karaoke Songs I Sang...
Hosting Kingston Muddy Cup Inaugural Bash, with MoveOn.org Civic Action and Affiliated Groups / Individuals [Photo / Copyright by BS]
My Inaugural [Barack Obama 2009] Poem (Copyright, NS)
My New Year's oath
To you and me
Was to become
All I can be
To live my muse
Pursue my dreams
With every drop
Of energy...
And courage
Drawn up from
My toes...
The fear I've known...
The fear I've known...
Handcuffed and chained
To walls of pain
This year, I say,
"No more."
And, as I stand
Before you now
A poet, dreamer,
Silly clown...
To celebrate
Obamas day...
I have to say...
I have to say...
Though I am white
My oath is true
My commitment firm
I've much to do
For I am, indeed,
A lot like you...
My freedom card
Long overdue.
And, although each day
Can be tough to face
It is worth the price
Because all our fates
Depend on you...
Depend on me...
On everyone struggling
To be free...
From the pain
That holds us back
(So much locked up inside)
Speaking its truth...
Speaking its truth...
Through all the tears
We've cried...
I really tried to hide...
I really tried to hide...
But this is the year...
This Is the year...
That I've been
Waiting for...
This is the year...
This is the year...
I finally say,
"No more."
And join
The chorus
Of voices
Singing...
"We can!"
NS [MoveOn.org Civic Action Member / Inaugural Party (Obama 2009) Host] [Copyright Jan. 2009]
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EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT [EVENT DATE 3/9/09]
ULSTER COUNTY DEMOCRATIC WOMEN'S (MEN ARE WELCOME, AS WELL) MEETING - 7 PM - AT THE NEW DEMOCRATIC HEADQUARTERS AT 275 FAIR STREET [CORNER OF FAIR AND JOHN STREETS] - #14 - SECOND FLOOR.
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT [EVENT DATE 3/15/09]
Sunday, March 15, 2009: "Shamrock Run" [entry forms due in by March 3rd] and St. Patrick's Day Parade. Please check out the AOH website -http://www.ulsteraoh.com/ for more info.
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT [EVENT DATE WED, MARCH 18, 2009]
The League of Women Voters of the Mid-Hudson Region will be hosting a discussion of the New York State budget with Rarbara Bartoletti, LWVNYS and Jay Gallagher - the head of the Gannett news bureau in Albany, NY. Please contact the League [links provided] for more information.
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT [EVENT DATES 3/21/09 and 3/22/09]
March 21st and 22nd, 09 - Hudson Valley Mall: "Lions Expo 2009" [primarily a fund-raising event geared towards aiding some community organizations; assisting families in need; and providing scholarships...] Please check out the Kingston Lions Club website - http://kingstonlions.com/ - for more info.
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT [EVENT DATE: 4/25/09]
Saturday, April 25, 2009: Earth Day Street Fair: Clinton Ave. United Methodist Church / More Info. Pending. For now, check out http://www.planetization.com/
Click Photo to Link up to a Beautiful You Tube Music Video
Photograph / Copyright by BF / Utilized with Permission
Quote and Poem (Most are Longer) from "Sunday Screw"
"When a child is allowed to die because he has no place to live, what is it? It is murder. Write it down" ["Elizabeth"; Character in a book by Jonathan Kozol (1988): "Rachel and Her Children..."; Crown Pub.; P. 144]
Poem ["Sunday Screw"; N.S.; iUniverse; 2007; P. 5 (Reformatted for Inclusion Here)]
"Trapped in Eden"
Vice:
----- Anger is gnawing, like a rat, at your insides;
----- Envy and lust breed within, stifled cancers;
----- Gluttony and greed await your command miss;
----- Sloth says don't listen; he promises warm bliss.
Virtue:
-------- I feel no anger; only love grows within me;
-------- Envy and lust, sir, are traits of a beast.
-------- I live to serve, not to gain, for my God sir,
-------- I labor for all; why don't you do the same?
Vice:
----- Your cheeks have reddened; your palms are sweating;
----- Your heart is pounding in concert with mine.
----- I believe you are lying, your bright eyes revealing,
----- Hungers and passions your words would deny.
Virtue:
-------What you say is not true, sir!
Vice:
----- Oh yes, dear, I'd say,
----- You are caught in a biblical snare.
----- Seven sins court you; this garden deceives you;
----- You stroll through a grand serpent's lair.
Virtue:
------- My conscience is clear, sir; I've nothing to hide;
------- Your sins, they mean nothing to me.
------- My heart is pure; I have nothing to fear;
------- Leave me now; just let me be!
Vice: (Laughs then and shakes her)
----- You self-righteous fool!
----- You had a choice of great sins!
----- But instead you choose pride,
----- The prettiest lie.
----- And your torment my dear, just begins...
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Click Photo to Link to Bruce Springsteen Song "Blinded by the Light"... You Tube
Photograph/Copyright by BF / Utilized with Permission
Quote and Excerpt from "Ode... Book I"
"The longer... ignorance is persisted in, the higher and the more terrible becomes the price that must be paid" (Aldous Huxley; "Religion and Time")
Excerpt (reformatted for inclusion here) from P. 5 of "Ode to the Wicker Man" (Book I); N.S.; 2007:
"Call it what you will...
Label it hedonistic, ethnic, uncivilized, occult, fundamental, paranoid, traditional, religious, cultic, evangelical, Satanic, or whatever you damn well please...
[But] at least admit to this...
[One] cannot see angels, spirits, demons, Baron Samedi, Jehovah, God, Kali, Beelzebub, Jesus, Allah, Mohammad, Baal, Yahweh, Satan, Osiris, Set or little green extraterrestials in one's bellybutton...
[Unless] one is in the midst of a psychotic breakdown, experiencing delirium tremors, suffering from an extremely high fever, or on some serious brain-zapping drugs...
[And] if I (being female, Agnostic and relatively poor) were to walk around claiming to have a pink and yellow flamingo perched on my shoulder that whispers sermons to me, and graces visions upon me...
[Someone (most likely aligned with the rich, the powerful, and/or one of their favored institutions)] would probably lock my as* up...
[And] pump me full of antipsychotics...
[Until] I twitched like bacon on a hot burner...
[Or] otherwise attempt to silence, contain, maim, or de-brain me...
So, what is up with "that?"
My pink and yellow flamingo "Godette" - a transexual bird that likes to wear spiked heals, by the way...
[Never] tells me to eat shi*...
[Doesn't] shi* on me...
[And] doesn't advocate or tolerate any kind of exploitation, abuse, or murder...
But then, perhaps that is the problem.
Do ya' think?"
Excerpt (reformatted for inclusion here) from P. 7 (Same Book):
"Have we all been under a Voodoo spell?
Does the mind matter when we pay "what matters" (honesty, kindness, respect, human dignity...) little mind?
Is the power of suggestion, deception, Orwellian "group-think," brainwashing, "mind control," and intensive social engineering [what] witchcraft and religion are really all about?
If your mom and pop "Voodooed..."
Your schoolteacher "Voodooed..."
[And] your president "Voodooed"...
[Do] you think you'd...
Voodoo too?"
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Click Photo to Link to Bob Dylan's Song "The Answer is Blowing In the Wind"... You Tube
Photograph/Copyright by BF / Utilized with Permission
Quote and Excerpt from "Ode... Book II"
"Serpent... a sly, sneaking, treacherous person" ("Webster's New World College Dictionary; P. 1310)
Excerpt (reformatted for inclusion here) from "Ode... Book II" [N.S.; 2007; P. 454]
"Amongst all else that has been put forth here, the number of poor children in the United States of America had increased - by 2004 - under Born Again Fundamental-Evangelical President George Bush Jr.'s "divine" guidance - by over 500,000...
[More] children were counted among the homeless than at any point since the Great Depression...
[College] tuition costs (particularly at the Community College level) jumped considerably...
[The] number of personal bankruptcies (often due to an inability to pay medical bills) increased radically...
[And poor folks... that turned to drugs as an escape and/or means of survival...
[Were] slammed into prison cells at ever-increasing and alarming rates...
[Whilst] corporate criminals were able to get away with the equivalent of socio-economic genocide and/or murder...
[And] the requirements for outside "objective" oversight and reporting in association with a number of State and Federal departments... were radically reduced or eliminated...
[An] all out "War on the Poor" (A. Huffington; "Fanatics and Fools..."; P. 340) ...
[Apparently] underway..."
Book Price: $38.95 plus shipping and handling / Inquiries to wingedbirdinflight@live.com
May Peace Truly Prevail On Earth... [Link to Video "Mother Theresa Quotes" You Tube
Photo / Copyright by N.S.
HEALTH RELATED LINKS / WARNINGS / RECALLS
medlineplus Heart Diseases
CDC - DHDSP - Heart Disease Prevention
CDC - DHDSP - Heart Disease Risk Factors
National Wear Red Day, DHHS, NIH, NHLBI
Heart Truth Lower Heart Disease Risk, DHHS, NIH, NHLBI
Peanut Product Recall
Recall Case Archive
NIH - Diabetes
CDC - Women's Health - Home
CDC Features
CDC Health-e-Cards Welcome
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N C H S Home
FDA MedWatch - 2009 Safety Alerts for Human Medical Products
Recall of Products Containing Peanut Butter Salmonella Typhimurium
Links Associated with Blog Posts...
"WSJ profile of Joshua DuBois" / Religious Right Watch
JFK on the Separation of Church and State" / You Tube
"House Passes Stimulus Plan With No G.O.P. Votes"; Jackie Calmes; "New York Times" (NYT) Online; 1/28/09
"Fair Pay Law Strikes A Blow For Equal Pay"; Nina Totenberg; NPR.org
Thomas.Loc.Gov
Re. Joshua DuBois / PolitckerNJ
"Obama calls $18B in Wall Street bonuses 'shameful'"; Ben Feller, AP; 1/29/09; Road Runner
USDA re. Super Bowl Parties / Health Issues
National Partnership for Women and Families
You Tube Video
"Leaders Say Obama Has Tapped Pastor for Outreach Office" New York Times Online
"House Passes Stimulus Plan Despite G.O.P. Opposition"; "New York Times" Online
"Obama set to sign equal-pay bill"; Philip Elliott, Associated Press (AP); 1/29/09
You Tube "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights"
MORE LINKS...
Obama warns of need for stimulus bill right away - Road Runner
Amid anger, Obama seeks right tone - Washington Post- msnbc.com
Obama lifts restrictions on kids health coverage - Road Runner
Barack Obama and Joe Biden The Change We Need Resource Library
Obama to Congress 'rise to the moment' - White House- msnbc.com
Obama signs bill extending kids health insurance - Road Runner
Obama plans review of faith-based policies - Road Runner
Barack Obama Change We Need Watch video and host or find a meeting
Obama to detail further compensation limits - Road Runner
What's Really In The Stimulus Package NPR
Obama Cracks Down On Influence Peddling NPR
YouTube - Obama Lashes Out At Wall St.
Mrs Obamas new roles as first lady mom-in-chief - Road Runner
YouTube - If Obama Doesn't Investigate Bush War Crimes, He Becomes An Accessory
In Kenya, A Wave Of Emotion As Obama Sworn In NPR
National Organization for Women Congratulates President Obama, Looks Forward to Restoration of Rights
NOW - VICTORY! State Child Health Insurance Bill Passes Senate
NOW Cheers Repeal of Global Gag Rule As First Step toward Worldwide Reproductive Justice
NOW - Promote Economic Recovery, Support Family Planning
oundtable Obama Reaches Out To Muslim World NPR
MySpace.com - Joe Biden - 100 - Male - Wilmington, Delaware - www.myspace.com-joebiden
MySpace.com - Barack Obama - 47 - Male - CHICAGO, Illinois - www.myspace.com-barackobama
LINKS, LINKS AND MORE LINKS...
1490 WKNY
92.7-96.9 WRRV "The New Rock Alternative"
94.3-97.3 The Wolf "This is Hudson Valley Country!"
Air America Media
Article: "Class Action Suit against Bush Crownies"
Article: "Gay NH bishop to offer prayer at inaugural... [AP; Road Runner]
Article: "Minister chosen for inaugural prayer service..." [AP; Road Runner]
Article: "Obama breaks from Bush and orders Gitmo to close"
Article: "Obama institutes ethics rules, freezes salaries..."
Arts Society of Kingston (ASK)
Auerbach for Comptroller
Change Gov / Newsroom / Blog
Change Gov/Plan
Chronogram Magazine
City of Kingston, New York - Government Agencies
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Feminist Majority Foundation - Breaking News, Feminism from Affirmative Action to Sexual Harrassment to Women's Sports
feministing Main
HealthCare STAT -- Protecting Patients' Rights and Access to Care in Ulster County
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator from New York
Home AlterNet
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Kingston Area Public Access - Channel 23 - Time Warner Cable - Kingston, New York
Kingston Community Radio
Kingston Lions Club
League of Women Voters [NY State Offices]
League of Women Voters of the United States For Members
League of Women Voters of the United States Home
Logic over Liberalism - Windows Live
Mid-Hudson News Network - navigating the Hudson Valley!
Mike Hein for Ulster County Executive
MIX 97.7 - "The Hudson Valley's Best Music Mix!"
moveon.org Democracy in Action
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New York State Assembly - Members
New York State Assembly - Members [K. Cahill]
New York State Board of Elections Home Page
NPR.org
Project Sunlight
recordonline.com - The Times Herald-Record, serving New York’s Hudson Valley and the Catskills
RIGHT TIME RADIO - Where your voice is heard... Fridays 6-7 PM on WKNY 1490 AM Kingston, New York
Rock the Vote register to vote, get educated, volunteer
Saugerties Town Hall - Lighthouse TV
Senator Charles E. Schumer
SeniorNet.Org
t r u t h o u t
The Daily Freeman Serving the Hudson Valley since 1871 (DailyFreeman.com)
The Hudson Valley Chronic - Volume 1, No. 1 - October 2009
The League of Women Voters of the Mid-Hudson Region
The National Organization for Women (NOW) web site
The New York Times - "Breaking News, World News & Multimedia"
The Phoenicia Times - Covering Shandaken, wild heart of the Catskills high peaks
Ulster County AOH
Ulster County Board of Elections
Ulster County Chamber of Commerce
Ulster County Democratic Committee
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Ulster County Democratic Women Links
Ulster County Government Home Page
Ulster County Legislature
Ulster Publishing
ulstercorps Serving the Ulster County Community
VerifiedVoting.org Index
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Welcome to Obama for America
Welcome! KingstonCitizens.org
www.wpdh.com
YDA
YouTube - BarackObamadotcom's Channel
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
YouTube - hillaryclintondotcom's Channel
YouTube - Mychannel23's Channel
YWCA of Ulster County
MY BLOG LIST
the albany project - Front Page
Could Mixed Martial Arts Be Coming To New York? - The question is straight-forward: Could mixed martial arts, made popular by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) be coming to New York? The * Times-Unio...
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Next Up: A Renewable Portfolio Standard? - And after that, renewables advocates will seek a carbon tax.
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▼ 2009 (108)
▼ 02/15 - 02/22 (13)
VISION QUEST SONG... You Tube
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton... You Tube Vi...
Some Interesting You Tube Videos...
Michael Moore's latest project You Tube... My Let...
U.C. Registered Sex Offender Open Meeting and Asso...
Signing Off this Day in PINK... You Tube Videos
Cancelation Finance Committee Meeting... KAPA Fund...
Combo Post... KAPA... Newspapers... Cities and Tow...
Your Home Town... Photo Shoot... Think About It.....
President Obama Addresses Economic Crisis... Note...
Campaign Financing: New Twist On Old Problem... W...
A LOT TO THINK ABOUT - RELIGION AND POLITICS - BIL...
A Hidden America... You Tube... New York State.....
► 02/08 - 02/15 (12)
Polls... Scrabble... Clue... Life... Funny Madaga...
Announcements and Polls in Sidebar... VISION QUES...
Native American Indian Dream Catcher... You Tube
How Hungry is America... US Senate 2009 02 11 Nan...
Abraham Lincoln's Birthday / Passing Some Info. O...
Cleaning Out my Favorites List... Passing Some In...
Price of Silence... Hillary Clinton 2007 HRC... ...
Truth... Enough is Enough... Sorry Mike... Chec...
Stimulus Plan Passes in Senate... Back to the Hous...
Weatherization Program... Obamas Reinvestment and...
Teen Pregancy Prevention... Youth Empowerment... ...
A Rubix Cube of Musings... Creativity... Artists....
► 02/01 - 02/08 (21)
Local Meeting on Obama's Economic Recovery Plan......
For Today's Meeting... Videos Below Regarding the ...
Obamas Weekly Address... Everyman... Jackson Bro...
Stimulus deal reached... Link and Video
From Barack TV...
Its a New Day.... Stimulus Plan... Have a Heart.....
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Direct neural control of complex machines is a long-term U.S. military goal. DARPA has a brain-machine interface program aimed at creating next-generation wireless interfaces between neural systems and, initially, prosthetics and other biomedical devices.
— Rodney Brooks, “Toward a Brain-Internet Link,” WirelessNewsFactor, 10 Dec 2003.
In a Kurzweillian future, the world would become a very strange place, where converging advances in nanotechnology, biotechnology and computer science combine to propel humanity to its next stage of evolution. “By the end of this century, I don't think there will be a clear distinction between human and machine,” Kurzweil told the Foresight Institute’s Eighth Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology.1
[By 1969,] the miracle of giving light to the blindi, ii, iii, iv or sound to the deaf ha[d] been made possible by implantation of electrodes, demonstrating the technical possibility of circumventing damaged sensory receptors by direct electrical stimulation of the nervous system.2 Computers that become part of our bodies are not so far-fetched.… Surgeons have performed [more than 50,000 3] cochlear implants on patients with hearing loss.v “These people are already walking around with chips in their heads,” [Peter Cochrane, head of research at British Telecommunications PLC,] says.4
Giving completely paralyzed patients full mental control of robotic limbs or communication devices has long been a dream of those working to free such individuals from their locked-in state.5 There is little doubt that direct brain-machine interfaces will be available in the very near future.6
Researchers at the University School of Medicine in Philadelphia demonstrated that signals from neuron groupings in rats brains can be used to control a physical device without the rats carrying out a physical action themselves.7 “This study breaks new ground in several areas,” said Dr. Eberhard Fetz, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, who authored a commentary on the research in the “News and Views” section of Nature Neuroscience. “Unlike comparable studies, this is the first demonstration to prove that simultaneous recordings from large ensembles of neurons can be converted in real time and online to control an external device. Extracting signals directly from the brain to control robotic devices has been a science fiction theme that seems destined to become fact.” 8
[Miguel Nicolelis and colleagues] at Duke University in North Carolina wired monkey brains to control robotic arms that mimicked the motions of their real arms (another search; see also another similar study).9 “It was an amazing sight to see the robot in my lab move, knowing that it was being driven by signals from a monkey brain at Duke,” said [Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s] Touch Lab director and co-researcher Mandayam Srinivasan. “It was as if the monkey had a 600-mile- (950-km-) long virtual arm.”10John P. Donoghue, a neuroscientist at Brown University developing a similar system, said paralyzed patients would be the first to benefit by gaining an ability to type and communicate on the Web, but the list of potential applications is endless, he said. The devices may even allow quadriplegics to move their own limbs again by sending signals from the brain to various muscles, leaping over the severed nerves that caused their paralysis.…
Both he and Nicolelis hope to get permission from the Food and Drug Administration to begin experiments in people [in 2004]. Nicolelis also is developing a system that would transmit signals from each of the hundreds of brain electrodes to a portable receiver, so his monkeys — or human subjects — could be free of external wires and move around while they turn their thoughts into mechanical actions.11
Scientists say they have developed a technology that enables a monkey to move a cursor on a computer screen simply by thinking about it.… Using high-tech brain scans, the researchers determined that [a] small clump[] of cells…were active in the formation of the desire to carry out specific body movements. Armed with this knowledge, [researchers at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena] implanted sensitive electrodes in the posterior parietal cortex of a rhesus monkey trained to play a simple video game.… A computer program, hooked up to the implanted electrodes,…then moved a cursor on the computer screen in accordance with the monkey’s desires — left or right, up or down, wherever “the electrical (brain) patterns tells us the monkey is planning to reach,” according to [researcher Daniella] Meeker.12 [Dr. William Heetderks, director of the neural prosthesis program at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke,] believes that the path to long-lasting implants in people would involve the recording of data from many electrodes. “To get a rich signal that allows you to move a limb in three-dimensional space or move a cursor around on a screen will require the ability to record from at least 30 neurons,” he said.13
Dr. Philip R. Kennedy, an [sic] clinical assistant professor of neurology at Emory University in Georgia, reported that a paralyzed man was able to control a cursor with a cone-shaped, glass implant (See also another similar study).14 Each [neurotrophic electrode] consists of a hollow glass cone about the size of a ball-point pen tip.15 The implants…contain an electrode that picks up impulses from the nerve endings. Before they are implanted, the cones are coated with chemicals — taken from tissue inside the patients’ own knees — to encourage nerve growth. The implants are then placed in the brain’s motor cortex — which controls body movement — and over the course of the next few months the chemicals encourage nerve cells to grow and attach to the electrodes. A transmitter just inside the skull picks up signals from the cones and translates these into cursor commands on the computer.16
Scientists at Northwestern University crafted a two-wheeled robot that operated partly on the electrical signals of a displaced lamprey’s brain (pic, video).17 The part of the brain used in the experiment normally keeps the lamprey upright in the water. When connected up correctly, the organ can guide the robot towards a light source.18
Scientists at the University of Tokyo are exploring ways that la cucaracha can become more socially redeeming. Using hardy American roaches, scientists remove their wings, insert electrodes in their antennae (more pics, schematics) and affix a tiny backpack of electric circuits and batteries to their carapace. The electrodes prod them to turn left and right, go backward and forward. The plan is to equip them with minicameras or other sensory devices.19, vi [Later that same year, the motion picture The Fifth Element (1997) featured a remote-controlled cockroach equipped with a camera.]
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute have…demonstrated electronic-based neuron transistors that can control the movement of a live leech from a computer. They can detect the firing of a nearby neuron, cause it to fire, or suppress a neuron from firing — all of which amounts to two-way communication between neurons and neuron transistors.20
Rats steered by a computer…could soon help find buried earthquake victims or dispose of bombs, scientists said [1 May 2002]. The remote-controlled “roborats” (more pics, audio, video) can be made to run, climb, jump or turn left and right through electrical probes, the width of a hair, implanted in their brains. Movement signals are transmitted from a computer to the rat’s brain via a radio receiver strapped to its back. One electrode stimulates the “feelgood” center of the rat’s brain, while two other electrodes activate the cerebral regions which process signals from its left and right whiskers.21 “They work for pleasure,” says Sanjiv Talwar, the bioengineer at the State University of New York who led the research team.… “The rat feels nirvana.” 22 Asked to speculate on potential military uses for robotic animals, Dr Talwar agreed they could, in theory, be put to some unpleasant uses, such as assassination.23
[In February 2007, scientists at the Robot Engineering Technology Research Centre at Shandong University of Science and Technology in China announced they had created remote-controlled pigeons (pic) after having had similar success implanting mice in 2005. Their next step is to improve the technology for practical use.]
A team of US scientists have wired a computer to a cat’s brain and created videos of what the animal was seeing. By recording the electrical activity of nerve cells in the thalamus, a region of the brain that receives signals from the eyes, researchers from the University of California at Berkeley were able to view these shapes.… They recorded the output from 177 brain cells that responded to light and dark in the cat's field of view. In total, the 177 cells were sensitive to a field of view of 6.4 by 6.4 degrees.… In the cat’s brain, as in ours, the signals from the thalamus cells undergo considerable signal processing in the higher regions of the brain that improve the quality of the image that is perceived. Taking an image from a region of the brain before this image enhancement has taken place will result in a poorer image than the cat is able to see.… Given time, it will be possible to record what one person sees and “play it back” to someone else either as it is happening or at a later date.24, vii
In 1870, two German researchers named [Eduard] Hitzig and [Gustav] Fritsch electrically stimulated the brains of dogs, demonstrating that certain portions of the brain were the centers of motor function. The American Dr. Robert Bartholow, within four years, demonstrated that the same was true of human beings. By the turn of the [twentieth] century in Germany Fedor Krause was able to do a systematic electrical mapping of the human brain, using conscious patients undergoing brain surgery [Morgan, James P., “The First Reported Case of Electrical Stimulation of the Human Brain,” Journal of History of Medicine at http://www3.oup.co.uk/jalsci/scope/; Zimmerman, M., “Electrical Stimulation of the Human Brain,” Human Neurobiology, 1982].
Another early researcher into electrical stimulation of the brain was Walter Rudolf Hess, who began research into ESB in the 1930s, jolting patients’ brains with shocks administered through tiny needles that pierced the skull.25 His experiments [also] included the insertion of fine electrically conductive wires into the brains of anaesthetized cats. To noone’s great surprise, given mild electrical stimulation the cats went beserk [Vance Packard, The People Shapers (New York: Bantam Books, 1977); “Hess, Walter Rudolf,” Encyclopedia Americana (New York: Harper & Row, 1969); “Hess, Walter Rudolph,” Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia (New York: Funk & Wagnalls Inc., 1973)].26
During the decades of the 1940s and 1950s, Wilder Penfield…experimented with electrical brain stimulation on patients undergoing surgery. One of Penfield’s discoveries was that the application of electricity on alert patients could stimulate the memory of past events [Project Open Mind] (full pic, video).
Since 1949, the Tulane University Department of Psychiatry and Neurology has done experimentation in the implantation of electrodes into patients’ brains. According to one of their staff-generated reports, “By implantation of electrodes into various predetermined specific brain sites of patients capable of reporting thoughts and feelings, we have been able to make invaluable long-term observations…” [“Stereotaxic Implantation of Electrodes in the Human Brain: A Method for Long-Term Study and Treatment,” Heath, John, Fontana, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University School of Medicine].
Other early researchers into direct brain stimulation were Robert G. Heath…and his associate, Dr. Russell Monroe. Beginning in 1950, with funding from the CIA and the military, among other sources, they implanted as many as 125 electrodes into subjects’ brains, and also experimented by injecting a wide variety of drugs directly into the brain tissue through small tubes; these drugs included LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline. One of Heath’s memorable suggestions was that lobotomy should be used on subjects, not as a therapeutic measure, but for the convenience of the staff [Heath, Robert G. Undated interview in Omni; Cannon, Martin, “Mind Control and the American Government,” Prevailing Winds, 1994; Human Rights Law Journal, “Freedom of the Mind as an International Human Rights Issue,” Vol. 3, No. 1-4; Ross, M.D., Dr. Colin, “The CIA and Military Mind Control Research: Building the Manchurian Candidate,” lecture given at Ninth Annual Western Clinical Conference on Trauma and Dissociation, April 18, 1996].27 Heath of Tulane University, who pioneered the electrical stimulation of human brains, has equipped dangerously aggressive mental patients with self-stimulators. A film shows a patient working himself out of a violent mood by pushing his stimulator button.28
In 1956, James Olds (pic) reported on research in which he had electrically stimulated the brains of rats. Implanting electrodes in rats’ pleasure center of the brain, he attached a device that allowed the rats to activate the electrical impulse. He found that the rats would become so obsessed with self-stimulation that they would literally starve themselves to death.29 Very similar results have since been achieved replacing rats with monkeys.30Jose Delgado, funded by Yale University, the Office of Naval Intelligence, the U.S. Air Force 6571st Aeromedical Research Laboratory, and other institutions, and linked to Spanish fascist groups by researcher John Judge,31…is the man who perfected the stimoceiver [or ‘transdermal stimulator’], a tiny electronic device that is implanted into the brains of humans and animals, and is used to transmit electrical impulses directly to the brain [Delgado, Jose, Physical Control of the Mind (New York: Harper & Row, 1969); and Judge, John, “The Secret Government,” Dharma Combat number 10].32
Delgado, in a series of experiments terrifying in their human potential, implanted electrodes in the skull of a bull. Waving a red cape, Delgado provoked the animal to charge. Then, with a signal emitted from a tiny hand-held radio transmitter, he made the beast turn aside in mid-lunge and trot docilely away.33 He has [also] been able to “play” monkeys and cats like “little electronic toys” that yawn, hide, fight, play, mate and go to sleepviii on command.34 The individual is defenseless against direct manipulation of the brain [Delgado, Physical Control].35
The open publication of Delgado’s book Physical Control of the Mind met with a decidedly cool reaction from the public, and this may have warned other researchers in the field to keep quiet about the subject. To this day, Delgado’s is the only popular book on the subject of implants and electrical stimulation of the brain.36
During the latter days of MKULTRA research, a CIA memorandum, dated 22 November, 1961, announced, “Initial biological work on techniques and brain locations essential to providing conditioning and control of animals has been completed. The feasibility of remote control of activities in several species of animals has been demonstrated.… The ultimate objective of this research is to provide an understanding of the mechanisms involved in the directional control of animals and to provide practical systems suitable for human application.” 37
Later breakthroughs in technology were documented in “Two-Way Transdermal Communication with the Brain,” published in 1975. By this time Delgado had linked his brain implants with computers. The monograph records,
The most interesting aspect of the transdermal stimoceivers is the ability to perform simultaneous recording and stimulation of brain functions, thereby permitting the establishment of feedbacks and ‘on-demand’ programs of excitation with the aid of the computer. With the increasing sophistication and miniaturization of electronics, it may be possible to compress the necessary circuitry for a small computer into a chip that is implantable subcutaneously. In this way, a new self-contained instrument could be devised, capable of receiving, analyzing, and sending back information to the brain, establishing artificial links between unrelated cerebral areas, functional feedbacks, and programs of stimulation contingent on the appearance of pre-determined patterns
[Delgado, Lipponen, Weiss, del Pozo, Monteagudo, and McMahon, “Two-Way Transdermal Communication with the Brain,” a co-operative publication of the Medical University of Madrid, Spain, and Yale University Medical School, 1975].38
Many popular articles on Delgado intend us to think that his primary purpose was the rehabilitation of the mentally and physically sick. This does not happen to be the case. Delgado was a blatant control freak. An example is Delgado’s experimentation on changing the social orientation of animals. One staging area for this experimentation was an island in the Bermudas, where Delgado maintained a free-roving population of gibbons with electronic implants, using electrical brain boosts to build and destroy social orders among those primates as if he was knocking down a row of dominoes [Packard, People Shapers].39
Although well cited, Delgado’s practical results on humans were extremely limited,ix as most of his research was either merely stated without a results base, or has been reported on second hand.… Reports have been made on his work on the ‘Pandora Project’, which involved modulating electromagnetic fields to a soldier’s head so that the soldier would lose self-control on the battle field. Reports also include how work was carried out to induce schizophrenia artificially through electrical stimulation of the septal zone in the human brain.40
Always a visionary in the Orwellian mold, Delgado said, “Looking into the future, it may be predicted that telerecording and telestimulation of the brain will be widely used” [Delgado, Jose, “Radio Stimulation of the Brain in Primates and Man,” New Haven, Connecticut: Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, 1969].41 He has urged the U.S. government to make “control of the mind” a national goal.42
Another researcher who specialized in brain implants is Dr. Stuart Mackay, who in 1968 penned a textbook titled Bio-Medical Telemetry. Mackay reported, “Among the many telemetry instruments being used today are miniature radio transmitters that can be swallowed, carried externally, or surgically implanted in man or animal. They permit the simultaneous study of behaviour and physiological functioning. The scope of observations is too broad to more than hint at a few examples. The possibilities are limited only by the imagination of the investigator” [Dr. Stuart Mackay, cited in Glenn Krawcyzyk, “Mind Control Techniques and Tactics of the New World Order,” Nexus, Dec-Jan 1993].43
By 1994, the London Times estimated that in the previous decade there had been 15,000 cases of persons being implanted with electronic brain devices. It is impossible to know if the Times estimate is at all accurate, since it is unlikely that they would be privy to statistics of secret testing. Certainly, most anti-mind control activists would say that the figure was a gross underestimate.44
In July 1996, information was released on research currently taking place into creation of a computer chip called the “Soul Catcher 2025.” Dr. Chris Winter and a team of scientists at British Telecom’s Martlesham Heath Laboratories, near Ipswich, are developing a chip that, when placed into the skull behind the eye, will record all visual and physical sensations, as well as thoughts. According to Winter, “This is the end of death… By combining this information with a record of the person’s genes, we could recreate a person physically, emotionally, and spiritually.” 45
“The brain is so complex that one wouldn’t at the outset think that replacing any of its parts is doable,” said Dr. Howard Eichenbaum, a professor of psychology at Boston University and director of the Laboratory of Cognitive Neurobiology there. But advances in neuroscience and computer engineering have made it possible to develop implanted circuits that mimic neural activities, he said. “At least in principle, it looks as though a chip imitating some functions of the hippocampus could be implanted in the future,” he said (pic). “It’s a huge, huge advance in simply duplicating the functions of the hippocampus, which in many ways Dr. [Theodore W.] Berger, [a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Southern California and the director of the Center for Neural Engineering there,] has done.” 46
Electrical devices called deep brain stimulators, essentially a pacemaker for the brain, have been used for some years to ease the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Now, they’ve just been approved for another degenerative brain disease called dystonia.… The brain stimulators don’t cure dystonia but…they can give patients a better quality of life. The beneficial effect has lasted for almost a decade so far in Parkinson’s patients, and it’s expected the dystonia effect will also be long lasting.47
Cyberkinetics Inc. of Foxboro, Mass., has received Food and Drug Administration approval [in 2004] to begin a clinical trial in which four-square-millimeter chips will be placed beneath the skulls of paralyzed patients 48 that would enable [them] to control computers directly with their brains or possibly help them move their limbs.… “Testing these implants in humans is the next step,” said Eberhard E. Fetz, professor at the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington, who has been experimenting with brain-signal devices since the late 1960s. “Within a decade, we’ll see these being used regularly to control prosthetic devices or activate a patient’s own muscles.” 49 At least two other research teams are planning similar brain-machine experiments in people.50
For the first time in humans [2004], a team headed by University researchers has placed an electronic grid atop patients’ brains to gather motor signals that enable the patients to play a computer game using only the signals from their brains. The use of a grid atop the brain to record the organ’s surface signals is a brain-machine interface technique that uses electrocorticographic (ECoG) activity — data taken invasively directly from the brain surface.… Eric C. Leuthardt, M.D., a WUSTL neurosurgeon at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, and Daniel Moran, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, performed their research on four adult epilepsy patients who had the grids implanted so that neurologists could find the area in the brain serving as the focus for an epileptic seizure, with hopes of removing it to avoid future seizures.… “To put this in perspective,” Leuthardt said, “the previous EEG-based x systems are equivalent to a 1908 Wright brothers airplane in regards to speed of learning to achieve control. Right now, with our results, we're flying around in an F-16 jet.” 51
Probes implanted in the brain for diagnosis and treatment could be improved with nanoscale carbon fibers. Biomedical engineer Thomas Webster from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana and colleagues developed a carbon nanofiber-reinforced plastic composite to determine whether it could improve neural and orthopedic prosthetics.
Neural prosthetics, usually made of silicon, can become covered in scar tissue. Orthopedic implants, usually made of titanium or titanium alloys, often become covered in soft tissue.
Knowing that carbon nanofibers and nanotubes have electrical and mechanical properties that might make them suitable for prosthesis, the researchers tested composites of 60-odd nanometer carbon nanofibers in polycarbonate urethane. Polycarbonate urethane is already approved for human use.
They found that neurons cultured on the nanofiber composite developed neurite extensions, which are the first step towards axons and a sign that the materials could encourage interactions essential to neural probes. Additionally, the material had less adhesion to astrocytes, which can impede neural function by producing scar tissue.
For orthopedic applications, the researchers found that bone-forming cells adhered better to composites with a high volume of nanofibers but cells that produce soft fibrous tissue stuck less readily.
The research is reported in the journal Nanotechnology (read abstract).52
[Related to brain implants are implants that are connected to nerves from different parts of the body. Professor Kevin Warwick, for example, had implants inserted into his and his wife’s arms allowing two-way communication. The results were published in his book, I, Cyborg.]
[Another man, whose arms needed to be amputated,] underwent surgery to graft existing nerve endings from his shoulder onto the pectoral muscle on his chest. Those nerves grew into the muscle after about six months. Electrodes on the graft can now pick up any thought-generated nerve impulses to the now-absent limb and transmit those to [a] mechanical prosthesis, controlling the movements of the [“bionic”] arm.53
[The television series Ripley’s Believe it or Not that aired on 5 June 2004 included a segment about French doctors who implanted a computer chip in a paralyzed man’s abdomin connected to implants in his legs that allowed him to stand and walk with a walker by means of computer control.]
We are Borg.
You will be assimilated.
Resistance is futile.54
Not everyone is thrilled at the prospect of a post-human future populated by cyborgs, designer children, conscious computers,xi immortals and disembodied minds roaming the Internet.… [Critics] think this could be the worst calamity to befall us, both as individuals and as a species.xii And they argue we should be taking steps to prevent it.55
If cyborgs are created with superhuman capabilities from a normal human start point, then it certainly brings about a threat to humanity itself. Perhaps the development of direct, military-style cyborgs might be possible to avoid. After all, when cyborgs exhibiting an intelligence that far surpasses that of humans are brought about, it will surely be the cyborgs themselves that make any decisions about how they treat humans.56
[Marvin Minsky, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence,] celebrates a future when humans will be able to “upload” the contents of their brains into computers or robot brains.… [Ray Kurzweil] recently called for replacing the body’s often imperfect molecular blueprint, DNA, with software.… “Transhumanists want to use technology to enhance and fulfill human potential,” [James Hughes, executive director of the World Transhumanist Association based in Willington, Conn.,] said. “That’s very hard to do if you die after only 70 years.” 57
“Humanity’s ability to alter its own brain function might well shape history as powerfully as the development of metallurgy in the Iron Age,” cognitive neuroscientist Martha Farah and eight co-authors write in a[n]…issue of Nature Reviews Neuroscience.58
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Say No To Microchip Implants M/36US i A handful of researchers are plumbing the potential of the bionic eye, including Wheaton, Ill.-based Optobionics Corp., led by Dr. Alan Chow, a pediatric ophthalmologist whose artificial silicon retinas have slight [sic] improved the vision of the six patients who’ve received them.
— Jim Krane (The Associated Press) “Bionic Eye Follows Bionic Ear,” Yahoo! News, 27 May 2002.
ii A small, precise dose of electricity can restore sight to some of the million or so Americans considered legally blind. For the past few months, two patients have made out doctors in white lab coats, among other things, thanks to a complex apparatus…made by Second Sight, a privately held firm in Santa Clarita, Calif. The device includes a tiny antenna inside the eye and a retinal implant with pencil-tip-size electrodes that fire electrical signals directly onto the optic nerves and brain. The resolution is extremely crude because there are only 16 electrodes, not enough to recognize faces. Second Sight and a consortium of research laboratories recently received a $9 million federal grant to find a way to squeeze 1,000 electrodes onto the array to make the picture sharper. Powered by an external battery, a mini video camera screwed into a pair of eyeglasses will wirelessly beam images to the array (pic) — all for an estimated cost, including surgery, of $25,000. Scientists concede facial recognition may be five to ten years away. So far, Second Sight has reported no negative side effects in the two patients undergoing clinical trials.
— Aliya Sternstein, “Seeing-Eye Chip,” Forbes, 14 Oct 2002.
iii A pea-sized miniature telescope inserted into the eye is showing promise in improving vision for people with macular degeneration.… Once the telescope is implanted, the eyes no longer work together because the brain cannot merge the magnified image in one eye with the normal image in the other eye. The one-hour surgery involves removing the eye lens and placing the telescope into the patient’s eye with the poorest vision. The eye telescope is one of the newest developments in a bionic revolution, in which plastic, metal and polymers are used to create artificial muscles, ears and other organs that researchers hope will improve the quality of life. “There’s no question there will be a tremendous number of advances in the future that will include devices, whether electrical or mechanical, which will enhance the function of our organs,” said Steve Goldstein, a University of Michigan Henry Ruppenthal family professor of orthopedic surgery and bioengineering.
— The Associated Press, “Miniature ‘bionic’ eye implant rescues vision,” USA Today, 8 Dec 2003.
iv An implantable chip that can serve as both a prosthetic retina and a drug delivery system has been developed to treat age-related blindness and conditions such as Parkinson’s disease. Created by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine in California, the chip communicates chemically rather than electrically, using neurotransmitters to stimulate cells.… Because the chip can draw droplets of fluid in as well as out, it could also enable researchers to take samples in real time, giving them a chemical picture of what goes on in living tissues during certain processes.
— Gabe Romain, “‘Wet’ Eye Chip Becomes Reality; Uses chemicals to work as artificial retina and drug delivery system,” BetterHumans, 23 June 2004.
v Physicians of the House Ear Clinic have successfully implanted the first two patients with a Penetrating Electrode Auditory Brainstem Implant (PABI), a revolutionary prosthetic device that is currently in clinical trials. The PABI is based on cochlear implant technology, but extends the utility to stimulating the hearing portions of the brain to restore some degree of hearing function to people deafened by bilateral tumors on their hearing and balance nerves (vestibular schwannomas). The PABI is a modified version of the existing Auditory Brainstem Implant (ABI) with the addition of an assembly of microelectrodes, designed to penetrate into the auditory portion of the brainstem (cochlear nucleus) and send sound signals to the brain.
— “First Successful Use of Penetrating Microelectrodes in Human Brainstem Restores Some Hearing to Deaf Patient,” Business Wire, 16 Jan 2004.
vi Be on guard next time you step into the shower. It might not be a regular cockroach watching you on the ceiling. It could be a well-heeled voyeur’s spy filming you!
— Ron Henderson, trans., “Cockroaches on a secret mission,” Sydsvenska Dagbladet, 18 Jan 1997, at http://magazine.magnus.se/artikele.asp?artikel=kackerla.
vii The idea that advance in neurotechnology will one day allow us to video our whole lives from somewhere inside our brains throws up all kinds of issues about privacy, about the world being a stage, about how we edit and censor our own memories and about how one day someone else may do this job for us.
— Lee Marshall, Screen review “The Final Cut,” at http://www.screendaily.com/story.asp?storyid=16330&r=true.
viii Sleep induced by electrical stimulation of the brain is similar to spontaneous sleep.
— José M. R. Delgado, M.D., Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society (New York: Harper & Row, 1969), p. 158.
ix In 1950 the Agency [CIA] tooled up for a battery of mind control experiments on human guinea pigs, underwritten by a network of scientific foundations and academic fronts. Neuropsychiatrists at Tulane, McGill, Yale, UCLA and Harvard, some of them laboring beside Nazi imports, researched the use of brain implants to control behavior.… A monograph written in the 1960s by Dr. Jose Delgado, a Yale psychiatrist hailing from Franco’s Spain, detailed his experiments on an 11-year-old boy with electrodes implanted in his brain. Dr. Delgado stimulated his young subject’s synapses with a radio transmitter at a range of 100 feet. The boy was immediately stripped of his sexual identity, reporting that he wasn’t sure if he was a boy or a girl.
— Alex Constantine, “Journal Preview; 12/95: The Constantine Report,” at http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/cnst-nws.htm.
x [Operant conditioning is used in the science of electroencephalograph (EEG)-based cursor control brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies. By successive training of mu (and beta) brainwaves, a cursor can be moved on a computer screen just by thinking about it.]
xi According to Moore’s Law, computer power doubles every 18 months, meaning that computers will be a million times more powerful by 2034. According to Nielsen’s Law of Internet bandwidth, connectivity to the home grows by 50 percent per year; by 2034, we’ll have 200,000 times more bandwidth. That same year, I’ll own a computer that runs at 3PHz CPU speed, has a petabyte (a thousand terabytes) of memory, half an exabyte (a billion gigabytes) of hard disk-equivalent storage and connects to the Internet with a bandwidth of a quarter terabit (a trillion binary digits) per second. The specifics may vary: Instead of following current Moore’s Law trajectories to speed up a single CPU, it’s likely that we’ll see multiprocessors, smart dust and other ways of getting the equivalent power through a more advanced computer architecture.… By 2034, we’ll finally get decent computer displays, with a resolution of about 20,000 pixels by 10,000 pixels (as opposed to the miserly 2048 pixels by 1536 pixels on my current monitor). Although welcomed, my predicted improvement factor of 200 here is relatively small; history shows that display technology has the most dismal improvement curve of any computer technology, except possibly batteries.
— Jakob Nielsen, “Thirty years with computers,” News.com, 27 May 2004.
xii [Ethicist Joel Anderson at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri,] points out that it will take time for people to accept the technology. “Initially people thought heart transplants were an abomination because they assumed that having the heart you were born with was an important part of who you are.”
— “World’s first brain prosthesis revealed,” NewScientist.com, 12 March 2003.
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Endnotes
1 Declan McCullagh, “Kurzweil: Rooting for the Machine,” Wired News, 3 Nov 2000.
2 José M. R. Delgado, M.D., Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society (New York: Harper & Row, 1969), p. 201.
3 Cochlear Hearing Implants, “New to Cochlear? Start Here,” at http://www.cochlearamericas.com/NewToCochlear/new_to_cochlear_in dex.asp.
4 Neil Gross, “Into the wild frontier,” Business Week, 23 June 1997, p. 74.
5 E. J. Mundell (Reuters Health), “Monkey Moves Computer Cursor by Thoughts Alone,” Yahoo! News, 30 Jan 2002.
6 Peter Passaro, “Is it Possible to Download Knowledge into the Brain? Mind-machine interfaces will be available in the near future, and several methods hold promise for implanting information,” Better Humans, 16 Jan 2004.
7 Amanda Onion, “Rat Robots: Scientists Develop Remote-Controlled Rats,” ABCNEWS.com, 2 May 2002.
8 “Rats Operate Robotic Arm Via Brain Activity,” Science Daily, 23 June 1999.
9 “Monkey brain operates machine,” BBC, 15 Nov 2000.
10 Rick Weiss, “Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants,” washingtonpost.com, 13 Oct 2003.
11 Mundell, “Monkey Moves Computer Cursor.”
12 Anne Eisenberg, “Don’t Point, Just Think: The Brain Wave as Joystick,” The New York Times, 28 March 2002.
13 Paul Eng, “Moving Thoughts: Scientists Study Brain Implants to Control PCs, Artificial Limbs,” ABCNEWS.com, 13 March 2002.
14 “Communicating with ‘thought power’,” BBC, 15 Oct 1998.
15 Jane Wakefield, “BodyTechnic: New funding for brain implants,” ZDNet UK News, 3 Dec 1998.
16 Eng, “Moving Thoughts.”
17 Onion, “Rat Robots.”
18 “Fish-brained robot at Science Museum,” BBC, 27 Nov 2000.
19 “Peepers creepers; Research at the University of Tokyo is investigating ways in which cockroaches with the mini-cameras can be used to locate vermin or perhaps even survivors of earthquakes,” Time, 27 Jan 1997, 149(4), p. 17.
20 Raymond Kurzweil, “Accelerated Living,” KurzweilAI.net, 24 Sep 2001; See also Ray Kurzweil, “Accelerated Living,” PC Magazine, 4 Sep 2001.
21Reuters, “Remote-Controlled Rats May Hunt Bombs and Bodies,” Yahoo! News, 2 May 2002.
22 Tom Clarke, “Here come the Ratbots; Desire drives remote-controlled rodents,” Nature, 2 May 2002.
23 James Meek, “Live rats driven by remote control,” The Guardian, 2 May 2002.
24 Dr David Whitehouse, “Looking through cats’ eyes,” BBC News, 11 Oct 1999; See also Garrett B. Stanley, Fei F. Li, and Yang Dan, “Reconstruction of Natural Scenes from Ensemble Responses in the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus,” The Journal of Neuroscience, 15 Sep 1999, 19(18):8036-8042.
25 Jim Keith, Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness (Lilburn, GA: IllumiNet Press, 1999), p. 94.
26 Jim Keith, Mind Control, World Control (Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press, 1998), p. 127.
27 Keith, Mass Control, pp. 94-95.
28 Vance Packard, The People Shapers (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1977), p. 45.
29 “Brain, Mind, and Altered States of Consciousness,” New Enlightenment.
30 Professor Kevin Warwick, I, Cyborg (London: Century, 2002), p. 110.
31 Keith, Mind Control, p. 127.
32 Keith, Mass Control, p. 97.
33 Alvin Toffler, Future Shock (Toronto: Bantam Books, 1988, 1970), p. 194.
34 John A. Osmundsen, “‘Matador’ With a Radio Stops Wired Bull,” The New York Times, 17 May 1965, CXIV(39,195), p. 20.
35 Jose Delgado, cited in Keith, Mind Control, p. 128.
36 Ibidem, pp. 129-130.
37 Ibidem, p. 130.
38 Keith, Mass Control, p. 99.
39 Ibidem, p. 100.
40 Ibidem, p. 101.
41 Warwick, I, Cyborg, p. 112.
42 Packard, People Shapers, p. 4.
43 Keith, Mass Control, p. 101.
44 Keith, Mind Control, p. 138.
45 Ibidem, p. 302.
46 Anne Eisenberg, “What’s Next; A Chip That Mimics Neurons, Firing Up the Memory,” The New York Times, 20 June 2002; See also USC Engineering News at http://www.usc.edu/dept/engineering/bergerNYT.
47 “Brain ‘Pacemaker’ Helps Alleviate Symptoms Of Dystonia; Disease Makes Patients Stiffen Up So Much They Lose Mobility,” wnbc.com, 21 July 2003.
48 Justin Pope (The Associated Press), “FDA Approves Human Brain Implant Devices,” Yahoo! News, 14 April 2004.
49 Jeffrey Krasner, “Approval sought to test brain implant; Neuron-fired device would aid paralyzed people, state firm says,” boston.com, 6 Nov 2003.
50 Ronald Kotulak, “I, CYBORG,” Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug 2004.
51 Tony Fitzpatrick, “Thought control: Human subjects play real mind games,” Record, 25 June 2004.
52 “Nanoscale Fibers Could Improve Neural Implants,” BetterHumans, 11 Dec 2003.
53 “Brain waves drive man’s bionic arm,” CNN.com, 25 Sep 2003.
54Star Trek, television series.
55 Margie Wylie (Religion News Service), “Transhumanists put their faith in technology,” Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2004.
56 Warwick, I, Cyborg, p. 239.
57 Wylie, “Transhumanists.”
58 Tom Siegfried, “Creating brain boosters demands smart approach,” DallasNews.com, 6 June 2004.
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Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society by Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness by Jim Keith
Mind Control, World Control by Jim Keith
The People Shapers by Vance Oakley Packard
Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
I, Cyborg by Kevin Warwick
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See also
The work of Jose Delgado, a pioneering star
Brain-machine interface: Can thoughts control machines?
CIA Mind Control
Brain implant timeline
George Orwell Meets the Matrix (timeline)
George Orwell Meets the Matrix by Maureen Farrell
Percutaneous pedestal
Cortical implants
Wetware (brain tissue computer chips)
Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Neuroprosthesis Research Organization
W. Ross Ashby’s “An Introduction to Cybernetics”
OpenEEG project
Cochlear and ocular implant videos:
MSNBC
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
CBS
Lamprey cyborg video:
TechTV
Rat cyborg audio:
BBC
Remote-controlled rat video:
BBC
Primate Research Could Lead to Robotic Prosthetic (audio) (29 Oct 2004):
NPR
Conditioning
Hypnotism
Cloning
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Examples of guided rat navigation using brain microstimulation. Sketches are constructed from digitized video recordings. Red dots indicate rat head positions at 1-s intervals; green dots indicate positions at which reward stimulations were administered to the medial forebrain bundle (MFB); blue arrows indicate positions at which right (R) and left (L) directional cues were issued; black arrows indicate positions 0.5 s after directional commands. a, Route followed by a rat guided through a slalom course. Inset, detail of the events that took place inside the dashed enclosure. b, Route taken by a rat guided over a three-dimensional obstacle course. The animal was instructed to climb a vertical ladder, cross a narrow ledge, descend a flight of steps, pass through a hoop and descend a steep (70º) ramp. Two rounds of high-density MFB stimulation were required to guide the rat successfully down the ramp, demonstrating the motivational qualities of MFB stimulation.
— Sanjiv K. Talwar, Shaohua Xu, Emerson S. Hawley, Shennan A. Weiss, Karen A. Moxon & John K. Chapin, “Behavioural neuroscience: Rat navigation guided by remote control,” Nature, 417, 37-38 (2002).
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Canadian and German researchers have grown snail nerve cells on a microchip and showed the cells have memory and can communicate. The researchers say this melding of machine and biology has a wide-range of potential applications.
— “Calgary scientist grows brain cells on microchip,” CBC News, 1 March 2004.
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A bright yellow slime mould that can grow to several metres in diameter has been put in charge of a scrabbling, six-legged robot. The Physarum polycephalum slime, which naturally shies away from light, controls the robot's movement so that it too keeps out of light and seeks out dark places in which to hide itself. They grew slime in a six-pointed star shape on top of a circuit and connected it remotely, via a computer, to the hexapod bot. Any light shone on sensors mounted on top of the robot were used to control light shone onto one of the six points of the circuit-mounted mould – each corresponding to a leg of the bot. As the slime tried to get away from the light its movement was sensed by the circuit and used to control one of the robot's six legs. The robot then scrabbled away from bright lights as a mechanical embodiment of the mould.
— Will Knight, “Robot moved by slime mould’s fears,” NewScientist, 13 Feb 2006.
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A microscopic view of rat neurons growing on a multi-electrode array in a petri dish trained to pilot a virtual F-22 fighter jet.
See: Wetware.
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Say No To Microchip Implants M/36US There is an agenda to have the population implanted with microchips, and ultimately, with brain chips. The necessary research for this agenda has been done over the last few decades, involving experimenting with inserting electrodes and implants into the brains of animals, and humans, and interfacing with computers.
On a socio-cultural level, this agenda has also involved the normalisation of various new technologies - in conjunction with the gradual alteration of certain behavioural norms - as a step-by-step tip-toeing towards this goal of mass microchip implantation, all pre-planned in advance. These technologies include the personal computer and the videogames console (along with the internet), the mobile phone, the iPod (and its predecessors), RFID-tags and of course, the implantable microchip itself.
It takes many years to implement these changes successfully. From the perspective of the ruling elite, all necessary steps must be overseen properly and everything must be done thoroughly, and in the right order. Any particular step cannot be missed out, and corners cannot be cut, because doing so could create unpredictable consequences which may threaten the success of their agenda - an agenda which is increasingly obviously a "must be". Such long-term goals take decades to bring about and because they come in so gradually over such a long period of time - much longer than the average person’s plans - most people don’t ever realise that they are actually witnessing a long-term agenda unfolding in their own lifetime.
Thousands of people have already taken microchip implants in their arms. We are now seeing the end stages of this particular long-term agenda. We must fight it.
The brain chip is now ready, and has been for years. There have been annual international science meetings held at Loyola University, Louisiana, starting in 2001. Scientists attending these meetings have said that the brain chip is ready, and that it is now just a matter of conditioning the public to accept them. They said that one way in which this would be achieved - not could be, would be - is by promoting them in movies, books and cartoons for children. Since then there have been cartoons in which the heroes have brain chips that give them special powers, such as Galaxy Rangers:
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And we have also had movies like The Final Cut, with Robin Williams, and The Stepford Wives, with Christopher Walken, Bette Midler, Nicole Kidman, etc. both featuring brain chips. And in 2006 we saw James Bond being chipped in Casino Royale, although not with a brain chip – yet!
There are many other movies featuring microchip implants, to varying degrees e.g. Demolition Man, A Beautiful Mind, and other movies featuring brain chips e.g. Johnny Mnemonic. There have also been movies incorporating technology which interacts with the brain to create an alternate reality e.g. eXistenZ, The Lawnmower Man and of course, The Matrix trilogy.
So we should be on our guard against the continuation of this propaganda campaign aimed at promoting the idea of microchip implants to the people, and then later, the brain chip. We should keep in mind the fact that the ruling elite want us to be chipped, for their benefit, not for ours.
There will almost certainly be many people who will agree to be chipped. Maybe they will take a chip out of fear of not being able to function within the system without one, or maybe they will want a brain chip to provide an escape from the ever-increasing levels of terror, or just because they like the idea of being a cyborg. Whatever the reason, once the brain chip is in, it's staying in. And given their track record throughout the ages, I don't trust the ruling elite to put anything harmless into our brains. Do you?
Scientists at the Loyola University meetings also said that when everything is finalised and the people are brain chipped, it would be more like a hive mind situation. A Japanese scientist said that you would no longer be able to perceive yourself as a distinct, separate individual. He said that you would constantly hear the buzz of thoughts going back and forth between the chips and the regional super-computers (which are also ready now) and you would not be able to distinguish this from your own thoughts. So the importance of fighting this agenda cannot be overstated - ultimately it is about individual consciousness, the enemy of the enemy.
The scientists didn’t discuss politics, as they are well aware that this is an agenda, and it is above politics. They know that politics is nothing more than a wrestling match, a Punch and Judy show for the dumbed-down masses.
These meetings and much more are discussed by Alan Watt in the mp3s posted below.
There are dozens of free downloadable mp3s on Alan Watt's website detailing various aspects of the global agenda - or New World Order, or whatever label you want to use - including several about the microchip agenda.
Here are some of the relevant mp3s and transcripts:
Dec 13, 2006 Alan Watt Blurb
"A Chip Off the Ashlar or the Old Masonic Block" - mp3 - transcript
Alan reads from a highly revealing article about the microchipping agenda, which was in the Toronto Star on December 10th.
Dec 20, 2006 Alan Watt Blurb
"Brain Implant Familiarization and the Front-Men Who Plug-It" - mp3 - transcript
Frontman Professor Kevin Warwick is discussed.
December 31, 2006 Alan Watt on Red-Ice Radio
"The Microchip & Technocracy" - mp3 - transcript
Alan Watt is back for his monthly visit and we begin this program talking about the implementation of the implantable microchip. We get into talking about global taxation and justification of surveillance due to the threat of 'global warming' and climate change. Is there any danger in brain computer interface and the concept behind transhumanism. How does this connection with the 'net' or the 'World Wide Web' is there something more behind that term? We also talk about the ruling bloodlines and their interest in DNA and breeding.
Jan 18, 2007 Alan Watt Blurb
"Masons, Microchips and the Battle for the Mind" - mp3 - transcript
Jan 19, 2007 Alan Watt Mini Blurb
"Mason's Microchip" - mp3 - transcript
Feb 22, 2007 Alan Watt Blurb
"IBM = Eye-Bee-M(A Son) = Eye-Beam = I Am Bee.
Bee = Cell = Cell Phone" - mp3 - transcript
March 14, 2007 Alan Watt Blurb
"Abandonment of Self for Programmed Security and Management (Existing as Non-Comprehending Peaceful Citizens)" - mp3 - transcript
Alan Reads from the Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics Journal
The Implantable Brainchips: Ethical and Policy Issues, Winter 2001, by Ellen M McGee PhD, Director of Long Island Centre for Ethics, Long Island University, and Gerald Q Maguire Jr PhD, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
May 3, 2007 Alan Watt Blurb
"Authorized Voice-to-Skull Advertising Preparing You for Brain-Chipped Hive - Happy Habitats and Concentration-Slum Areas (Camps)" - mp3 - transcript
June 13, 2007 Alan Watt Blurb
"Stop This Program, I Want to Get Off! - Better Living through Borgism" - mp3 - transcript
July 25, 2007 Alan Watt Blurb
"Chertoff's CREATE-ORS of Chaos, Paranoia and Control" - mp3 - transcript
Dec. 17, 2007 - Alan Watt "Cutting Through The Matrix" on RBN (adverts removed)
"Exodus from Physical Slavery to Virtual Slavery - The Surrender of Consciousness" - mp3 - transcript
(Article: "'Exodus' to virtual worlds predicted" BBC News, bbc.co.uk - Dec. 11, 2007.)
Feb. 8, 2008 - Alan Watt "Cutting Through The Matrix" on RBN (adverts removed)
"Technique of Intergenerational Reality Alteration and Guidance - (a) I Know, (b) That's Possible, (c) I'm Now Unsure, (d) What's Everyone Thinking? (e) I'll Follow Them." - mp3 - transcript available soon.
(Article: "Life is one big computer game" Metro (metro.co.uk) - Feb. 5, 2008.)
(Article: "Exclusive! The FBI Deputizes Business" by Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive Magazine (progressive.org) - February 7, 2008.)
There are some relevant articles in the articles section of Alan Watt's website. There are also several more mp3s in which this agenda is briefly discussed, e.g. the Red Ice interviews from October 22nd (Part 2) and June 25th (Part 2), and the blurbs from December 1st and December 6th, and others - available here (transcripts).
Another important blurb is April 13, 2007 "Pathocrats' Conspiracy AGENDA for Upcoming Generation (from Ministry of Defence)" - mp3 - transcript - in which Watt discusses a document released by the Ministry of Defense, mentioned in The Guardian, which discusses a brainchipped population by 2035, "flashmobs", revolutionary middle classes, and the possible use of neutron bombs on the population.
Someone has made a video corresponding to this blurb and put it up on google video.
Flashmobs, Revolutions and brainchips (42mins)
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There are other free Alan Watt videos there (not to be confused with Alan Watts).
There is also a downloadable 405-page NBIC report (as mentioned in the July 23 2002 article "US report foretells of brave new world Nathan Cochrane") in Watt's article section, entitled "Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance"
National Science Foundation / Department Of Commerce-sponsored report - June 2002 (PDF file approx. 7 MB)
(NBIC = nanotechnology, biotechnology, IT and cognitive sciences)
And there is also a downloadable 280-page NSET report entitled "Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology"
NSET Workshop Report - National Science Foundation - March 2001
Logistical, Editing and Management Assistance by:
International Technology Research Institute, World Technology (WTEC) Division, Loyola College (PDF file approx. 3 MB)
(NSET = Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology)
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I had no idea Alan Watt was homosexual. Or is it just gay for pay?
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Say No To Microchip Implants M/36US In order to convince people to take a brain chip some time in the future, it is first necessary to normalise the idea of implanting a microchip into the body, typically the upper arm. This conditioning process started several years ago, and there are currently thousands of people with these microchip implants.
Videos:
The implantable Microchip (9mins 20s)
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IBM, Verichip, and the Fouth Reich (8mins 29s)
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Operation Lie and Deceive Verichip Style (8mins 1s)
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Mind Control Microchip Verichip - Welcome to the Machines (6mins 40s)
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The Biochip (9mins 14s)
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BBC Money Programme: The Real Big Brother
BBC Microchip pt.1 (9mins 58s)
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BBC Microchip pt.2 (9mins 58s)
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BBC Microchip pt.3 (9mins 4s)
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(Youtube videos can be downloaded as FLV files - save with .flv at the end of the file name - from http://keepvid.com)
Katherine Albrecht - Big Brother, The Chip and the Mark of The Beast (4mins 21s)
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There are more videos and audios featuring Katherine Albrecht in this thread.
Freedom to Fascism the Microchip (9mins 38s)
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MicroChip ID - National Geografic Channel ® Pt.1 (5mins 25s)
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MIcroChip ID - National Geografic Channel ® Pt.2 (2mins 37s)
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MIcrochipping the Troops!! ® (2mins 28s)
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Aaron Russo discusses the long-term global agenda (revealed to him by Nick Rockefeller) including plans to microchip the population (1hr 9mins)
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Shorter 15-minute version
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Aaron Russo has sadly passed away. Rest in Peace.
There is also an extract from the above interview with Aaron Russo in the following video, taken from Zeitgeist The Movie:
NORTH AMERICAN UNION & VCHIP TRUTH (9mins 12s)
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Say No To Microchip Implants M/36US (mp3s 1 and 2) Predictive programming (transcript 1 and 2) and propaganda from PBS:
PBS documentary: 22nd Century - World Wide Mind (56mins)
Alan Watt discusses the above video in his Jan 18, 2007 blurb
"Masons, Microchips and the Battle for the Mind" - mp3 - transcript.
BBC Horizon - Human 2.0 (44mins 57s)
There is a moment in the near future where scientists believe we will transform the notion of what we believe to be human. By conducting some of the most controversial experiments, scientists are unlocking the secrets of the Human Brain, moving us towards the moment where it will be possible to store our minds in machines. Then we will be able to change what we are, and who we are. This is the story of how biology and technology will combine to create a new type of human. Human version 2.0
MKULTRA Military Intelligence (#13) (9mins 32s)
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Series on MKULTRA, microwave weapons development, military intelligence and assasination of ploitical dissidents. The Eugenics movement, human radiation testing, and MKULTRA are established facts. The videos that follow detail how scientists, members of the intelligence community, and extreme right wing segments of society are using political dissidents (US citizens) in terminal experiments to perfect the latest in radio frequency and microwave weapons. Personalities include Gen. Michael Aquino, Col. Paul Vallely, and Col. J.B. Alexander, all alumni of the Phoenix Program that targeted 20,000 Vietnamese civilians for assassination.
The books are free at myspace.com/marsboy683 (blog)
Buy the books/DVDs at customflix, amazon, theconnextion, lulu.com See the links at MonarchNewPhoenix.org /com
(Implanted brain chips discussed at the end.)
MKULTRA Scientists (#14) (7mins 50s)
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fourth in a series on microwave weapons, mind control, and assasination of political dissidents.
Eugenics, radiation experiments and MKULTRA are historical facts. The following videos detail current human experimentation on US citizens considered to be security risks by extreme right wing elements in the scientific, and intelligence communities, torturing hundreds of people in order to perfect the 50 year quest for control of human beings using speed of light weapons and MKULTRA methodology.
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Say No To Microchip Implants M/36US http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2005/06/20050628_b_main.asp
The Brain Chip
Have you ever closed your eyes at some point and wished you could make something happen -- just by thinking it. Well science isn't quite there yet, but it's close.
A technology called BrainGate holds the promise that quadriplegics will be able to do things like surf the Web, write e-mails and play video games just with brainpower. It works with a microchip and electrodes; a tiny device implanted in the brain that transmits intention to a computer cursor.
BrainGate has already been tested on one person, and the Food and Drug Administration has given the company permission to test the technology on four more people. The success of the first trial has given hope to many, but also opens up a number of concerns about how the technology might be misused.
Guests:
John Donoghue, head of the neuroscience department at Brown University and co-founder of Cyberkinetics
Miguel Nicoleli, professor in Duke University's neurobiology department.
Hosted by: Dick Gordon
Show Originally Aired: 6/28/2005
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Say No To Microchip Implants M/36US One generation is all they need
Toronto Star | Dec. 10, 2006
By KEVIN HAGGERTY
One day we will all happily be implanted with microchips, and our every move will be monitored. The technology exists; the only barrier is society’s resistance to the loss of privacy
By the time my four-year-old son is swathed in the soft flesh of old age, he will likely find it unremarkable that he and almost everyone he knows will be permanently implanted with a microchip. Automatically tracking his location in real time, it will connect him with databases monitoring and recording his smallest behavioural traits.
Most people anticipate such a prospect with a sense of horrified disbelief, dismissing it as a science-fiction fantasy. The technology, however, already exists. For years humane societies have implanted all the pets that leave their premises with a small identifying microchip. As well, millions of consumer goods are now traced with tiny radio frequency identification chips that allow satellites to reveal their exact location.
A select group of people are already “chipped” with devices that automatically open doors, turn on lights, and perform other low-level miracles. Prominent among such individuals is researcher Kevin Warwick of Reading University in England; Warwick is a leading proponent of the almost limitless potential uses for such chips.
Other users include the patrons of the Baja Beach Club in Barcelona, many of whom have paid about $150 (U.S.) for the privilege of being implanted with an identifying chip that allows them to bypass lengthy club queues and purchase drinks by being scanned. These individuals are the advance guard of an effort to expand the technology as widely as possible.
From this point forward, microchips will become progressively smaller, less invasive, and easier to deploy. Thus, any realistic barrier to the wholesale “chipping” of Western citizens is not technological but cultural. It relies upon the visceral reaction against the prospect of being personally marked as one component in a massive human inventory.
Today we might strongly hold such beliefs, but sensibilities can, and probably will, change. How this remarkable attitudinal transformation is likely to occur is clear to anyone who has paid attention to privacy issues over the past quarter-century. There will be no 3 a.m. knock on the door by storm troopers come to force implants into our bodies. The process will be more subtle and cumulative, couched in the unassailable language of progress and social betterment, and mimicking many of the processes that have contributed to the expansion of closed-circuit television cameras and the corporate market in personal data.
A series of tried and tested strategies will be marshalled to familiarize citizens with the technology. These will be coupled with efforts to pressure tainted social groups and entice the remainder of the population into being chipped.
This, then, is how the next generation will come to be microchipped.
It starts in distant countries. Having tested the technology on guinea pigs, both human and animal, the first widespread use of human implanting will occur in nations at the periphery of the Western world. Such developments are important in their own right, but their international significance pertains to how they familiarize a global audience with the technology and habituate them to the idea that chipping represents a potential future.
An increasing array of hypothetical chipping scenarios will also be depicted in entertainment media, furthering the familiarization process.
In the West, chips will first be implanted in members of stigmatized groups. Pedophiles are the leading candidate for this distinction, although it could start with terrorists, drug dealers, or whatever happens to be that year’s most vilified criminals. Short-lived promises will be made that the technology will only be used on the “worst of the worst.” In fact, the wholesale chipping of incarcerated individuals will quickly ensue, encompassing people on probation and on parole.
Even accused individuals will be tagged, a measure justified on the grounds that it would stop them from fleeing justice. Many prisoners will welcome this development, since only chipped inmates will be eligible for parole, weekend release, or community sentences. From the prison system will emerge an evocative vocabulary distinguishing chippers from non-chippers.
Although the chips will be justified as a way to reduce fraud and other crimes, criminals will almost immediately develop techniques to simulate other people’s chip codes and manipulate their data.
The comparatively small size of the incarcerated population, however, means that prisons would be simply a brief stopover on a longer voyage. Commercial success is contingent on making serious inroads into tagging the larger population of law-abiding citizens. Other stigmatized groups will therefore be targeted. This will undoubtedly entail monitoring welfare recipients, a move justified to reduce fraud, enhance efficiency, and ensure that the poor do not receive “undeserved” benefits.
Once e-commerce is sufficiently advanced, welfare recipients will receive their benefits as electronic vouchers stored on their microchips, a policy that will be tinged with a sense of righteousness, as it will help ensure that clients can only purchase government-approved goods from select merchants, reducing the always disconcerting prospect that poor people might use their limited funds to purchase alcohol or tobacco.
Civil libertarians will try to foster a debate on these developments. Their attempts to prohibit chipping will be handicapped by the inherent difficulty in animating public sympathy for criminals and welfare recipients — groups that many citizens are only too happy to see subjected to tighter regulation. Indeed, the lesser public concern for such groups is an inherent part of the unarticulated rationale for why coerced chipping will be disproportionately directed at the stigmatized.
The official privacy arm of the government will now take up the issue. Mandated to determine the legality of such initiatives, privacy commissioners and Senate Committees will produce a forest of reports presented at an archipelago of international conferences. Hampered by lengthy research and publication timelines, their findings will be delivered long after the widespread adoption of chipping is effectively a fait accompli. The research conclusions on the effectiveness of such technologies will be mixed and open to interpretation.
Officials will vociferously reassure the chipping industry that they do not oppose chipping itself, which has fast become a growing commercial sector. Instead, they are simply seeking to ensure that the technology is used fairly and that data on the chips is not misused. New policies will be drafted.
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What might Hitler, Mao or Milosevic have accomplished if their citizens were chipped, coded, and remotely monitored?
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Employers will start to expect implants as a condition of getting a job. The U.S. military will lead the way, requiring chips for all soldiers as a means to enhance battlefield command and control — and to identify human remains. From cooks to commandos, every one of the more than one million U.S. military personnel will see microchips replace their dog tags.
Following quickly behind will be the massive security sector. Security guards, police officers, and correctional workers will all be expected to have a chip. Individuals with sensitive jobs will find themselves in the same position.
The first signs of this stage are already apparent. In 2004, the Mexican attorney general’s office started implanting employees to restrict access to secure areas. The category of “sensitive occupation” will be expansive to the point that anyone with a job that requires keys, a password, security clearance, or identification badge will have those replaced by a chip.
Judges hearing cases on the constitutionality of these measures will conclude that chipping policies are within legal limits. The thin veneer of “voluntariness” coating many of these programs will allow the judiciary to maintain that individuals are not being coerced into using the technology.
In situations where the chips are clearly forced on people, the judgments will deem them to be undeniable infringements of the right to privacy. However, they will then invoke the nebulous and historically shifting standard of “reasonableness” to pronounce coerced chipping a reasonable infringement on privacy rights in a context of demands for governmental efficiency and the pressing need to enhance security in light of the still ongoing wars on terror, drugs, and crime.
At this juncture, an unfortunately common tragedy of modern life will occur: A small child, likely a photogenic toddler, will be murdered or horrifically abused. It will happen in one of the media capitals of the Western world, thereby ensuring non-stop breathless coverage. Chip manufactures will recognize this as the opportunity they have been anticipating for years. With their technology now largely bug-free, familiar to most citizens and comparatively inexpensive, manufacturers will partner with the police to launch a high-profile campaign encouraging parents to implant their children “to ensure your own peace of mind.”
Special deals will be offered. Implants will be free, providing the family registers for monitoring services. Loving but unnerved parents will be reassured by the ability to integrate tagging with other functions on their PDA so they can see their child any time from any place.
Paralleling these developments will be initiatives that employ the logic of convenience to entice the increasingly small group of holdouts to embrace the now common practice of being tagged. At first, such convenience tagging will be reserved for the highest echelon of Western society, allowing the elite to move unencumbered through the physical and informational corridors of power. Such practices will spread more widely as the benefits of being chipped become more prosaic. Chipped individuals will, for example, move more rapidly through customs.
Indeed, it will ultimately become a condition of using mass-transit systems that officials be allowed to monitor your chip. Companies will offer discounts to individuals who pay by using funds stored on their embedded chip, on the small-print condition that the merchant can access large swaths of their personal data. These “discounts” are effectively punitive pricing schemes, charging unchipped individuals more as a way to encourage them to submit to monitoring. Corporations will seek out the personal data in hopes of producing ever more fine-grained customer profiles for marketing purposes, and to sell to other institutions.
By this point all major organizations will be looking for opportunities to capitalize on the possibilities inherent in an almost universally chipped population. The uses of chips proliferate, as do the types of discounts. Each new generation of household technology becomes configured to operate by interacting with a person’s chip.
Finding a computer or appliance that will run though old-fashioned “hands-on”‘ interactions becomes progressively more difficult and costly. Patients in hospitals and community care will be routinely chipped, allowing medical staff — or, more accurately, remote computers — to monitor their biological systems in real time.
Eager to reduce the health costs associated with a largely docile citizenry, authorities will provide tax incentives to individuals who exercise regularly. Personal chips will be remotely monitored to ensure that their heart rate is consistent with an exercise regime.
By now, the actual process of “chipping” for many individuals will simply involve activating certain functions of their existing chip. Any prospect of removing the chip will become increasingly untenable, as having a chip will be a precondition for engaging in the main dynamics of modern life, such as shopping, voting, and driving.
The remaining holdouts will grow increasingly weary of Luddite jokes and subtle accusations that they have something to hide. Exasperated at repeatedly watching neighbours bypass them in “chipped” lines while they remain subject to the delays, inconveniences, and costs reserved for the unchipped, they too will choose the path of least resistance and get an implant.
In one generation, then, the cultural distaste many might see as an innate reaction to the prospect of having our bodies marked like those of an inmate in a concentration camp will likely fade.
In the coming years some of the most powerful institutional actors in society will start to align themselves to entice, coerce, and occasionally compel the next generation to get an implant.
Now, therefore, is the time to contemplate the unprecedented dangers of this scenario. The most serious of these concern how even comparatively stable modern societies will, in times of fear, embrace treacherous promises. How would the prejudices of a Joe McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover, or of southern Klansmen — all of whom were deeply integrated into the American political establishment — have manifest themselves in such a world? What might Hitler, Mao or Milosevic have accomplished if their citizens were chipped, coded, and remotely monitored?
Choirs of testimonials will soon start to sing the virtues of implants. Calm reassurances will be forthcoming about democratic traditions, the rule of law, and privacy rights. History, unfortunately, shows that things can go disastrously wrong, and that this happens with disconcerting regularity. Little in the way of international agreements, legality, or democratic sensibilities has proved capable of thwarting single-minded ruthlessness.
“It can’t happen here” has become the whispered swan song of the disappeared. Best to contemplate these dystopian potentials before we proffer the tender forearms of our sons and daughters. While we cannot anticipate all of the positive advantages that might be derived from this technology, the negative prospects are almost too terrifying to contemplate.
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Alan Watt discussed this article at length in his blurb from December 13th 2006 "A Chip Off the Ashlar or the Old Masonic Block" - transcript.
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Say No To Microchip Implants M/36US Think tank: depopulation, brain-chipping on the horizon
An organization headed by a former World Bank president the author of “Future Shock” predicts a dismal future for Americans.
24 million disabled Americans, most suffering from diseases caused by excess consumption, will require special public transportation to go to treatment centers, according to the World Future Society.
The WFS, whose directors include former World Bank president and U.S Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, and the futurist author Alvin Toffler, also predicts that the able-bodied will flee to other parts of the world, such as China and India, for work.
And healthy or not, young or old, most can look forward to being brain-chipped, and connected permanently to a global computer network, according to the WFS.
The WFS portrays the brain-chipping scenario as one of the few pluses on its list.
More of the WFS’s grim forecasts for the next 25 years: China’s drinking water supply will be virtually depleted, and global warming-generated super storms will cost hundreds of billions of dollars in damages annually.
Link and excerpt, to some of the predictions, are below.
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Forecasts
#1: Generation Y will migrate heavily overseas.
#2: Dwindling supplies of water in China will impact the global economy.
#3: Workers will increasingly choose more time over more money.
#4: We’ll incorporate wireless technology into our thought processing by 2030.
#5: Children’s “nature deficit disorder” will grow as a health threat.
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Urban wireless to serve intel and PSYOP forces
The government needs more nodes: Various agencies want to seed cities with wireless networking devices (image from a DOD document·
Despite the high costs and unproven social benefits for municipal broadband, dozens of U.S. cities are ignoring laws banning anti-competitive practices and getting into the internet business.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Defense is planning to build robots that configure themselves into ad hoc wireless networks within urban areas.
City mayors claim they want to provide free and low-cost Wi-Fi access to the poor and attract business travelers. Defense planners say they need to have broadband capabilities in urban war zones.
But rather than closing the “digital divide” (which many academics admit is being exaggerated), or providing a redundant service to traveling salesmen, it appears that officials aim to seize control of internet communications and track individuals in urban areas.
Military and law enforcement agencies will also use the wireless networks to stage “hard PSYOP” attacks against a brain-chipped populace, according to historian and commentator Alan Watt, who specializes in secret societies and government intelligence operations.
Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston, and Providence, R.I. are among the cities partnering with private companies and the federal government to set up public broadband internet access. Providence used Homeland Security funds to construct a network for police, which may be made available to the public at a later date.
None of the cities are expected to turn a profit anytime soon. Nor are the poor likely to benefit from the projects.
Subscribers to Philly’s “Wireless Philadelphia” service, for example, will pay up to 73 percent more than the rate promised to them two years ago.
“(Philadelphia) presented dangerously inaccurate estimates and figures for the costs and revenue” for its wireless network, according to a recent analysis. by students at Harvard Law School.
Seeding: The DOD envisions soldiers dropping robots into cities. The robots will self-configure into what are known as “mesh networks.”
City officials have managed to line their own pockets, however.
Philadelphia’s former chief information officer, Dianah Neff (below, left), now works for Civitium, the consulting firm she paid $300,000 to help build Philly’s Wi-Fi network.
Denise Brady, San Francisco’s former deputy CIO, also took a position with Civitium after bringing the firm her city’s business.
San Franciscans might actually lose more than money to their city’s muni Wi-Fi scheme.
Google and Earthlink, the companies building San Francisco’s Wi-Fi network, want to place cameras and sensors atop lampposts at the same time they are installing their Wi-Fi antennae. The companies say they merely want to help police and emergency workers.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU have opposed such police/public proposals.
But even if the cities fail to complete their Wi-Fi projects, the military will be able to set up wireless networks within hours, perhaps even faster.
The DOD, which is in the middle of joint urban war-games with Homeland Security and Canadian, Israeli and other international forces, is experimenting with Wi-Fi networks it can set up on the fly.
According to a recent DOD announcement for contractors, soldiers will be able to drop robots, called LANdroids (below, left), when they arrive in a city. The robots will then scurry off to position themselves, becoming nodes for a wireless communications network. (Click here to download a PDF of the DOD announcement.)
The Wi-Fi antennae dotting the urban landscape will serve not only as communications relays, but as transponders that can pinpoint the exact positions of of individual computers and mobile phones–a scenario I described in the Boston Globe last year.
In other words, where GPS loses site of a device (and its owner), Wi-Fi will pick up the trail.
The antennae will also relay orders to the brain-chipped masses, members of the British Ministry of Defense and the DOD believe.
“We already are evolving toward technology implanting,” reads a 1996 Air Force report.
People, already conditioned to receiving biological agents such as flu shots in their bodies, will welcome brain chips that promise to help them control technology, the Air Force report says.
Indeed, Alan Watt believes one of the purposes of muni Wi-Fi and LANdroids will be to disseminate commands and propaganda directly into the human brain.
Tracking and control of information via wireless networks are just the beginning, Watt said. “The implanted chip will be the end goal.”
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Say No To Microchip Implants M/36US US report foretells of brave new world
By Nathan Cochrane
July 23 2002
A draft government report says we will alter human evolution within 20 years by combining what we know of nanotechnology, biotechnology, IT and cognitive sciences. The 405-page report sponsored by the US National Science Foundation and Commerce Department, Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance, calls for a broad-based research program to improve human performance leading to telepathy, machine-to-human communication, amplified personal sensory devices and enhanced intellectual capacity.
People may download their consciousnesses into computers or other bodies even on the other side of the solar system, or participate in a giant "hive mind", a network of intelligences connected through ultra-fast communications networks. "With knowledge no longer encapsulated in individuals, the distinction between individuals and the entirety of humanity would blur," the report says. "Think Vulcan mind-meld. We would perhaps become more of a hive mind - an enormous, single, intelligent entity."
Armies may one day be fielded by machines that think for themselves while devices will respond to soldiers' commands before their thoughts are fully formed, it says. The report says the abilities are within our grasp but will require an intense public-relations effort to "prepare key organisations and societal activities for the changes made possible by converging technologies", and to counter concern over "ethical, legal and moral" issues. Education should be overhauled down to the primary-school level to bridge curriculum gaps between disparate subject areas.
Professional societies should be open to practitioners from other fields, it says. "The success of this convergent-technologies priority area is crucial to the future of humanity," the report says. wtec.org/ConvergingTechnologies/Report/NBIC-pre-publication.pdf
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The article above mentions a 405-page report sponsored by "The US National Science Foundation and Commerce Department, Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance."
NBIC 405-page report (PDF - 7MB)
(NBIC = Nano Bio Info Cogno)
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Say No To Microchip Implants M/36US Pentagon to implant microchips in soldiers' brains
The Department of Defense is planning to implant microchips in soldiers' brains for monitoring their health information, and has already awarded a $1.6 million contract to the Center for Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips (C3B) at Clemson University for the development of an implantable "biochip".
Soldiers fear that the biochip, about the size of a grain of rice, which measures and relays information on soldiers vital signs 24 hours a day, can be used to put them under surveillance even when they are off duty.
But Anthony Guiseppi-Elie, C3B director and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Bioengineering claims the that the invivo biosensors will save lives as first responders to the trauma scene could inject the biochip into the wounded victim and gather data almost immediately.
He believes that the device has other long-term potential applications, such as monitoring astronauts’ vital signs during long-duration space flights and reading blood-sugar levels for diabetics.
“We now lose a large percentage of patients to bleeding, and getting vital information such as how much oxygen is in the tissue back to ER physicians and medical personnel can often mean the difference between life and death,” said Guiseppi-Elie. “Our goal is to improve the quality and expediency of care for fallen soldiers and civilian trauma victims.” The biochip also may be injected as a precaution to future traumas."
Clemson scientists have formulated a gel that mimics human tissue and reduces the chances of the body rejecting the biochip, which has been a problem in the past.
The researcher predicts the biochip is five years away from human trials, and the DoD could start implanting microchips in soldiers bodies soon after.
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Say No To Microchip Implants M/36US Microchip Mind Control, Implants And Cybernetics
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Actual 1974 Congressional Testimony of Dr. Jose Delgado -
"We need a program of PSYCHOSURGERY for POLITICAL CONTROL of our society. The purpose is PHYSICAL CONTROL OF THE MIND. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be SURGICALLY MUTILATED.
"The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective.
"Man does NOT HAVE THE RIGHT to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must ELECTRICALLY CONTROL THE BRAIN. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain."
Dr. Jose M.R. Delgado Director of Neuropsychiatry Yale University Medical School Congressional Record, No. 26, Vol. 118 February 24, 1974
(Author of "PHYSICAL CONTROL OF THE MIND" 1969)
The following article was originally published in the 36th-year edition of the Finnish-language journal, SPEKULA (3rd Quarter, 1999). SPEKULA is a publication of Northern Finland medical students and doctors of Oulu University OLK (OULUN LAAKETIETEELLINEN KILTA).
MICROCHIP IMPLANTS, MINDCONTROL AND CYBERNETICS
By Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, MD Former Chief Medical Officer of Finland
In 1948 Norbert Weiner published a book, CYBERNETICS, defined as a neurological communication and control theory already in use in small circles at that time. Yoneji Masuda, "Father of Information Society," stated his concern in 1980 that our liberty is threatened Orwellian-style by cybernetic technology totally unknown to most people. This technology links the brains of people via implanted microchips to satellites controlled by ground-based super-computers.
The first brain implants were surgically inserted in 1874 in the state of Ohio, U.S.A., and also in Stockholm, Sweden. Brain electrodes were inserted into the skulls of babies in 1946 without the knowledge of their parents. In the 50's and 60's, electrical implants were inserted into the brains of animals and humans, especially in the U.S., during research into behavior modification, and brain and body functioning. Mind control (MC) methods were used in attempt to change human behavior and attitudes. Influencing brain functions became an important goal of military and intelligence services.
Thirty years ago brain implants showed up in xrays the size of one centimeter. Subsequent implants shrunk to the size of a grain of rice. They were made of silicon, later still of gallium arsenide. Today they are small enough to be inserted into the neck or back, and also intraven-ously in different parts of the body during surgical operations, with or without the consent of the subject. It is now almost impossible to detect or remove them.
It is technically possible for every newborn to be injected with a micro-chip, which could then function to identify the person for the rest of his or her life. Such plans are secretly being discussed in the U.S. without any public airing of the privacy issues involved. In Sweden, Prime Minister Olof Palme gave permission in 1973 to implant prisoners, and Data Inspection's ex-Director General Jan Freese revealed that nursing-home patients were implanted in the mid- 1980's. The technology is revealed in the 1972:47 Swedish state report, STATENS OFFICIELLA UTRADNINGER (SOU).
Implanted human beings can be followed anywhere. Their brain functions can then be remotely monitored by supercomputers and even altered through the changing of frequencies. Guinea-pigs in secret experiments have in-cluded prisoners, soldiers, mental patients, handicapped children, deaf and blind people, homosexuals, single women, the elderly, school children and any group of people considered "marginal" by the elite experimenters. The published experiences of prisoners in Utah State Prison, for example, are shocking to the conscience.
Today's microchips operate by means of low-frequency radio waves that target them. With the help of satellites, the implanted person can be tracked anywhere on the globe. Such a technique was among a number tested in the Iraq war, according to Dr. Carl Sanders, who invented the intell-igence-manned interface (IMI) biotic, which is injected into people. (Earlier during the Vietnam War, soldiers were injected with the Rambo chip, designed to increase adrenaline flow into the bloodstream.) The U.S. National Security Agency's (NSA) 20 billion bits/second supercomputers could now "see and hear" what soldiers experience in the battlefield with a remote monitoring system (RMS).
When a 5-micromillimeter microchip (the diameter of a strand of hair is 50 micromillometers) is placed into optical nerve of the eye, it draws neuroimpulses from the brain that embody the experiences, smells, sights and voice of the implanted person. Once transferred and stored in a computer, these neuroimpulses can be projected back to the person's brain via the microchip to be re-experienced. Using a RMS, a land-based computer operator can send electromagnetic messages (encoded as signals) to the nervous system, affecting the target's performance. With RMS, healthy persons can be induced to see hallucinations and to hear voices in their heads.
Every thought, reaction, hearing and visual observation causes a certain neurological potential, spikes, and patterns in the brain and its elect- romagnetic fields, which can now be decoded into thoughts, pictures and voices. Electromagnetic stimulation can therefore change a person's brainwaves and affect muscular activity, causing painful muscular cramps experienced as torture.
The NSA's electronic surveillance system can simultaneously follow and handle millions of people. Each of us has a unique bioelectrical reson- ance frequency in the brain, just like we have unique fingerprints. With electro-magnetic frequency (EMF) brain stimulation fully coded, pulsating electromagnetic signals can be sent to the brain, causing the desired voice and visual effects to be experienced by the target. This is a form of electronic warfare. U.S. astronauts were implanted before they were sent into space so their thoughts could be followed and all their emotions could be registered 24 hours a day.
The Washington Post reported in in May 1995 that Prince William of Great Britain was implanted at the age of 12. Thus, if he were ever kidnapped, a radiowave with a specific frequency could be targeted to his microchip. The chips signal would be routed through a satellite to the computer screen of police headquarters, where the Princes movements could be followed. He could actually be located anywhere on the globe.
The mass media have not reported that an implanted person's privacy van- ishes for the rest of his or her life. S/he can be manipulated in many ways. Using different frequencies, the secret controller of this equip- ment can even change a person's emotional life. S/he can be made aggress- ive or lethargic. Sexuality can be artificially influenced. Thought sig-nals and subconscious thinking can be read, dreams affected and even induced, all without the knowledge or consent of the implanted person.
A perfect cyber-soldier can thus be created. This secret technology has been used by military forces in certain NATO countries since the 1980's without civilian and academic populations having heard anything about it. Thus, little information about such invasive mind-control systems is available in professional and academic journals.
The NSA's Signals Intelligence can remotely monitor information from human brains by decoding the evoked potentials (3.50HZ, 5 milliwatt) emitted by the brain. Prisoner experimentees in both Gothenburg, Sweden and Vienna, Austria have been found to have [missing word] brain lesions. Diminished blood circulation and lack of oxygen in the right temporal frontal lobes result where brain implants are usually operative. A Finnish experimentee experienced brain atrophy and intermittent attacks of unconsciousness due to lack of oxygen.
Mind control techniques can be used for political purposes. The goal of mind controllers today is to induce the targeted persons or groups to act against his or her own convictions and best interests. Zombified individ-uals can even be programmed to murder and remember nothing of their crime afterward. Alarming examples of this phenomenon can be found in the U.S.
This silent war is being conducted against unknowing civilians and sold-iers by military and intelligence agencies. Since 1980 electronic stim- ulation of the brain (ESB) has been secretly used to control people tar-geted without their knowledge or consent. All international human rights agreements forbid nonconsensual manipulation of human beings even in pri-sons, not to speak of civilian populations. Under an initiative of U.S. Senator John Glenn, discussions commenced in January 1997 about the dan-gers of radiating civilian populations. Targeting peoples brain functions with electromagnetic fields and beams (from helicopters and airplanes, satellites, from parked white vans, neighboring houses, telephone poles, electrical appliances, mobil phones, TV, radio, etc.), is part of the radiation problem that should be addressed in democratically elected government bodies.
In addition to electronic MC, chemical methods have also been developed. Mind-altering drugs and different smelling gasses affecting brain function negatively can be injected into air ducts or water pipes. Also, bacteria and viruses have been tested this way in several countries.
Today's supertechnology, connecting our brain functions via microchips (or even without them, according to the latest technology) to computers via satellites in the U.S. or Israel, poses the gravest threat to human-ity. The latest supercomputers are powerful enough to monitor the whole worlds population. What will happen when people are tempted by false premises to allow microchips into their bodies? One lure will be a micro-chip identity card. Compulsory legislation has even been secretly pro-posed in the U.S. to criminalize removal of an ID implant.
Are we ready for the robotization of mankind and the total elimination of privacy, including freedom of thought? How many of us would want to cede our entire life, including our most secret thoughts, to Big Brother? Yet the technology exists to create a totalitarian "New World Order." Covert neurological communication systems are in place to counteract independent thinking and to control social and political activity on behalf of self-serving private and military interests.
When our brain functions are already is connected to supercomputers by means of radio implants and microchips, it will be too late for protest. This threat can be defeated only by educating the public, using available literature on biotelemetry and information exchanged at international congresses.
One reason this technology has remained a state secret is the widespread prestige of the psychiatric DIAGNOSTIC STATISTICAL MANUAL IV produced by the U.S. American Psychiatric Association (APA), and printed in 18 lan-guages. Psychiatrists working for U.S. intelligence agencies no doubt participated in writing and revising this manual. This psychiatric "bible" covers up the secret development of MC technologies by labelling some of their effects as symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia.
Victims of mind control experimentation are thus routinely diagnosed, knee-jerk fashion, as mentally ill by doctors who learned the DSM symptom list in medical school. Physicians have not been schooled that patients may be telling the truth when they report being targeted against their will or being used as guinea pigs for electronic, chemical and bacteriological forms of psychological warfare.
Time is running out for changing the direction of military medicine, and ensuring the future of human freedom. -- Rauni Kilde, MD December 6, 2000 ___
MICROWAVE MIND CONTROL: MODERN TORTURE AND CONTROL MECHANISMS ELIMINATING HUMAN RIGHTS AND PRIVACY
By Dr. Rauni Leena Kilde, MD
September 25, 1999
Helsingin Sanomat, the largest newspaper in Scandinavia, wrote in the September 9, 1999 issue that Scientific American magazine estimates that after the Millenium perhaps ALL people will be implanted with a "DNA microchip".
How many people realize what it actually means? Total loss of privacy and total outside control of the person's physical body functions, men-tal, emotional and thought processes, including the implanted person's subconscious and dreams! For the rest of his life!
It sounds like science fiction but it is secret military and intelligence agencies' mind control technology, which has been experimented with for almost half a century. Totally without the knowledge of the general public and even the general academic population.
Supercomputers in Maryland, Israel and elsewhere with a speed of over 20 BILLION bits/sec can monitor millions of people simultaneously. In fact, the whole world population can be totally controlled by these secret brain-computer interactions, however unbelievable it sounds for the uninformed.
Human thought has a speed of 5,000 bits/sec and everyone understands that our brain cannot compete with supercomputers acting via satellites, implants, local facilities, scalar or other forms of biotelemetry.
Each brain has a unique set of bioelectric resonance/entrainment characteristics. Remote neural monitoring systems with supercomputers can send messages through an implanted person's nervous system and affect their performance in any way desired. They can of course be tracked and identified anywhere.
Neuro-electromagnetic involuntary human experimentation has been going on with the so-called "vulnerable population" for about 50 years, in the name of "science" or "national security" in the worst Nazi-type testing, contrary to all human rights. Physical and psychological torture of mind control victims today is like the worst horror movies. Only, unlike the horror movies, it is true.
It happens today in the USA, Japan, and Europe. With few exceptions, the mass media suppresses all information about the entire topic.
Mind control technology in the USA is classified under "non-lethal" weaponry. The name is totally misleading because the technology used IS lethal, but death comes slowly in the form of "normal" illnesses, like cancer, leukemia, heart attacks, Alzheimer's disease with loss of short term memory first. No wonder these illnesses have increased all over the world.
When the use of electromagnetic fields, extra-low (ELF) and ultra-low (ULF) frequencies and microwaves aimed deliberately at certain individ-uals, groups, and even the general population to cause diseases, disori-entation, chaos and physical and emotional pain breaks into the awareness of the general population, a public outcry is inevitable.
[Eleanor White comment: ELF/ULF frequencies on their own cannot be focussed and are practically impossible to transmit in the usual manner of radio transmissions. ELF/ULF cannot carry voice.
ELF/ULF CAN be carried on radio and ultrasound carrier signals, however, and are effective in things like setting up a target to be more receptive to hypnosis, force a target to be unable to sleep, and force a target to fall asleep daytime. This is like the reverse process of reading the brain's natural ELF/ULF electrical activity using biofeedback.]
Who is behind a sinister plan to microchip and control and torture the general population?
[Eleanor White's comment: Reports from persons targetted by neuro- electromagnetic experimentation show that not everyone is implanted. The fact that those few victims who have had implants removed cannot get custody of the implants means someone has a keen interest in controlling the use of covert implants and preventing the publication of this practice.]
The Patent Office of the U.S.A. has granted patents for purposes of mental monitoring and mind alteration.
Apparatus and method for remotely monitoring and altering brainwaves, methods for inducing mental, emotional and physical states of conscious- ness, in human beings. Method of and apparatus for desired states of consciousness are among some of them.
People who have been implanted, involuntarily or through deception vol- untarily have become bilogical robots and guinea pigs for this activity under the guise of national security.
The real consequences of microchip implantation (or with today's advanced hidden technology, using only microwave radiation for mind control,) are totally hidden from the public. How many know the real dangers of mic- rowaves through mobile phones?
How many believe the disinformation that microwave radiation is not causing health problems? The economic issues in the mobile phone industry are enormous. Therefore health issues are deliberately brushed aside.
However, the same thing is inevitable in the future as with the tobacco industry. When economic compensation for health damages becomes big enough, as in the tobacco industry, health hazards will be admitted and users are then responsible for their tobacco-related illnesses.
Today, already about 50% of Finns, Swedes and Norwegians use mobile phones, especially the young population.
Mobile phones used in mind control was a brilliant idea. Military and police agencies can follow every user, influence their thoughts through microwaves, cause healthy people to hear voices in their heads and if needed burn their brains in a second by increasing the current 20,000 times.
That probably happened to Chechnyan leader General Dudayev who died talking to a mobile phone.
Heating effect of tissues with the speed of light is a known effect of high power microwave and electromagnetic pulse weapons.
According to Navy studies they also cause fatigue states, depression, insomnia, aggressiveness, long and especially short term memory loss, short catatonic states, cataracts, leukemia, cancer, heart attacks, brain tumors and so forth.
Alteration of behavior and attitudes hs been demonstrated as well.
Dr. Ross Adey has found out that by using 0.75 milliwatts per square centimeter intensity of pulse modulated microwave at a frequency of 450 MHz it is possible to control ALL aspects of human behaviour!
Microwave radiation excites the hydrogen bond in the cells and can interfere with meiosis, which leads to tumors.
All our emotions, moods, and thoughts have a specific brain frequency which has been catalogued. If these records fall into the wrong hands, our behaviour and attitudes can be manipulated by persons whose ethics and morals are not in our best interest.
Both military and intelligence agencies have been infiltrated with such persons. The Director of the Swiss Secret Service had to resign in September 1999 because of his agency's involvement in illegal arms deals and a plan to create an ORGANIZATION within the legal Secret Service.
This globally infiltrated organization has "octopus type" activities in all major intelligence services in the world, working together with the Mafia and terrorists. It has recruited people from all important government institutions, state and local administrations.
It owns Star Wars technology which is used against military and civilian populations, claiming it is "non-lethal" weaponry.
"Down and out" people, jobless, freed prisoners, mental outpatients, students and orphans are trained by this organization to harass, follow, and torture innocent people, who for whatever reason have been put on the organization's hit list. They are ALREADY in every apartment block!
[Eleanor White comment: This gang-like colour-coding is not reported in all areas. Dr. Kilde's experience is with northern Europe.]
Deception is the name of the game, so recruits are told untrue sinister stories of their victims to keep them motivated. They have a military order and get rewarded for their evil actions, which include Satanism, and symbols and yellow-orange-black colors. However, fresh recruits must wear pink - and the highest elite wears yellow ties with dark suits.
Even dashes of yellow or orange in their ties may signal their recruitment as well as yellow shirts or other objects with that color for signalling.
Too many world leaders fit into this signalling. However, it is quite possible they are only used as fronts for this global organization without any knowledge of it's criminal activity in the field against innocent people. Mass media and big industry are also infiltrated.
Who are the targets? Experimentation with soldiers and prisoners may continue, as well as handicapped children, mental patients, homosexuals and single women. They are still experimental guinea pigs for electronic and chemical warfare. But today ANYONE can become a target, even those who invented the system.
Researchers who find out about this secret radiation of the population become targets themselves.
The U.S. Senate discussed the issue on January 22, 1997. The U.S. Air Force's "Commando Solo" aircraft have been used to send subliminal radio frequency messages to manipulate even the minds of foreign nations in their elections. Haiti and Bosnia are a couple of recent examples.
In July 1994 the U.S. Department of Defense proposed the use of "non-lethal" weapons against anyone engaged in activities the DoD opposes. Thus opposing political views, economic competitors, counterculture individuals and so forth can be beamed to sickness or death.
The Psychiatric Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM) for mental disorders has been a brilliant cover up operation in 18 languages to hide the atrocities of military and intelligence agencies' actions towards their targets. THE MANUAL LISTS ALL MIND CONTROL ACTIONS AS SIGNS OF PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA.
If a target is under surveillance with modern technology via TV, radio, telephone, loudspeakers, lasers, microwaves, poisoned with mind altering drugs via airducts, giving familiar smells which cause headache, nausea and so forth, if he claims his clothes are poisoned, his food or tap water as well --- all medical schools teach their students that the person is paranoid, ESPECIALLY if he believes intelligence agencies are behind it all.
Never is the medical profession told that these are routine actions all over the world by intelligence agencies against their targets. Thus, victims of mind control are falsely considered mentally ill and get no help since they are not believed and their suffering is doubled by ignorant health professionals.
The unethical abuses of power by individuals in charge of biomedical telemetry are incomprehensible to normal people.
The goal of mind control is to program an individual to carry out any mission of espionage or assassination even against their will and self- preservation instict and to control the absolute behavior and thought patterns of the individual. The purpose of mind control is to disrupt memory, discredit people through aberrant behavior, to make them insane or to commit suicide or murder.
How is it possible that this technology is not stopped by political top authorities? They themselves will also be targets someday, a fact they have not always realized. How much are they involved?
This year the 1999 European Parliament in "Resolution on Environment, Security, and Forein Policy", in paragraphs 23, 24, and 27 calls for "non-lethal" weapons technology and development of new arms strategies to be covered and regulated by international conventions.
Also, it calls for an international convention introducing a GLOBAL BAN on all developments and deployments of weapons which might enable ANY FORM OF MANIPULATION OF HUMAN BEINGS.
Project HAARP in Alaska is a global concern, and calls for it's legal, ecological, and ethical implications to be examined by an international independent body before any further research and testing.
It is possible that the USA will ignore those resolutions. The dangers of non-lethal mind control weapons were already revealed in an expert meeting of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, in July 1994.
Only increased public awareness of the microchip implants, their frightful consequences to privacy by influencing of individuals' thoughts and actions, causing people to become biological robots with physical and emotional pain whenever the supercomputer technician so wishes, is enough reason to refuse to take the chip into your body for whatever reason.
It is the biggest threat to humanity and the most sinister plan to enslave the human race forever.
If you have a choice and want to remain a normal human being with privacy, do not have your children nor yourself implanted with a DNA microchip. Otherwise your vision, hearing, sensing, thoughts, dreams and subconscious will be influenced by an outsider, who does not have your best interests in mind.
MICROWAVE MIND CONTROL WITH "NON-LETHAL" WEAPONS IS THE BIGGEST CRIME IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND AGAINST THE POPULATION OF PLANET EARTH. IT MUST BE STOPPED BY ALL PEOPLES OF THIS GLOBE.
Recommended reading: Mind Controllers, Dr. Armen Victorian, 1999, UK Mind Control, World Control, Jim Keith, 1997, USA Microwave Mind Control, Tim Rifat, The Truth Campaign, winter 1998, UK.
Cutting Through The Matrix
Important Alan Watt mp3s/videos
The Microchip Agenda
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Direct neural control of complex machines is a long-term U.S. military goal. DARPA has a brain-machine interface program aimed at creating next-generation wireless interfaces between neural systems and, initially, prosthetics and other biomedical devices.
— Rodney Brooks, “Toward a Brain-Internet Link,” WirelessNewsFactor, 10 Dec 2003.
In a Kurzweillian future, the world would become a very strange place, where converging advances in nanotechnology, biotechnology and computer science combine to propel humanity to its next stage of evolution. “By the end of this century, I don't think there will be a clear distinction between human and machine,” Kurzweil told the Foresight Institute’s Eighth Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology.1
[By 1969,] the miracle of giving light to the blindi, ii, iii, iv or sound to the deaf ha[d] been made possible by implantation of electrodes, demonstrating the technical possibility of circumventing damaged sensory receptors by direct electrical stimulation of the nervous system.2 Computers that become part of our bodies are not so far-fetched.… Surgeons have performed [more than 50,000 3] cochlear implants on patients with hearing loss.v “These people are already walking around with chips in their heads,” [Peter Cochrane, head of research at British Telecommunications PLC,] says.4
Giving completely paralyzed patients full mental control of robotic limbs or communication devices has long been a dream of those working to free such individuals from their locked-in state.5 There is little doubt that direct brain-machine interfaces will be available in the very near future.6
Researchers at the University School of Medicine in Philadelphia demonstrated that signals from neuron groupings in rats brains can be used to control a physical device without the rats carrying out a physical action themselves.7 “This study breaks new ground in several areas,” said Dr. Eberhard Fetz, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, who authored a commentary on the research in the “News and Views” section of Nature Neuroscience. “Unlike comparable studies, this is the first demonstration to prove that simultaneous recordings from large ensembles of neurons can be converted in real time and online to control an external device. Extracting signals directly from the brain to control robotic devices has been a science fiction theme that seems destined to become fact.” 8
[Miguel Nicolelis and colleagues] at Duke University in North Carolina wired monkey brains to control robotic arms that mimicked the motions of their real arms (another search; see also another similar study).9 “It was an amazing sight to see the robot in my lab move, knowing that it was being driven by signals from a monkey brain at Duke,” said [Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s] Touch Lab director and co-researcher Mandayam Srinivasan. “It was as if the monkey had a 600-mile- (950-km-) long virtual arm.”10John P. Donoghue, a neuroscientist at Brown University developing a similar system, said paralyzed patients would be the first to benefit by gaining an ability to type and communicate on the Web, but the list of potential applications is endless, he said. The devices may even allow quadriplegics to move their own limbs again by sending signals from the brain to various muscles, leaping over the severed nerves that caused their paralysis.…
Both he and Nicolelis hope to get permission from the Food and Drug Administration to begin experiments in people [in 2004]. Nicolelis also is developing a system that would transmit signals from each of the hundreds of brain electrodes to a portable receiver, so his monkeys — or human subjects — could be free of external wires and move around while they turn their thoughts into mechanical actions.11
Scientists say they have developed a technology that enables a monkey to move a cursor on a computer screen simply by thinking about it.… Using high-tech brain scans, the researchers determined that [a] small clump[] of cells…were active in the formation of the desire to carry out specific body movements. Armed with this knowledge, [researchers at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena] implanted sensitive electrodes in the posterior parietal cortex of a rhesus monkey trained to play a simple video game.… A computer program, hooked up to the implanted electrodes,…then moved a cursor on the computer screen in accordance with the monkey’s desires — left or right, up or down, wherever “the electrical (brain) patterns tells us the monkey is planning to reach,” according to [researcher Daniella] Meeker.12 [Dr. William Heetderks, director of the neural prosthesis program at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke,] believes that the path to long-lasting implants in people would involve the recording of data from many electrodes. “To get a rich signal that allows you to move a limb in three-dimensional space or move a cursor around on a screen will require the ability to record from at least 30 neurons,” he said.13
Dr. Philip R. Kennedy, an [sic] clinical assistant professor of neurology at Emory University in Georgia, reported that a paralyzed man was able to control a cursor with a cone-shaped, glass implant (See also another similar study).14 Each [neurotrophic electrode] consists of a hollow glass cone about the size of a ball-point pen tip.15 The implants…contain an electrode that picks up impulses from the nerve endings. Before they are implanted, the cones are coated with chemicals — taken from tissue inside the patients’ own knees — to encourage nerve growth. The implants are then placed in the brain’s motor cortex — which controls body movement — and over the course of the next few months the chemicals encourage nerve cells to grow and attach to the electrodes. A transmitter just inside the skull picks up signals from the cones and translates these into cursor commands on the computer.16
Scientists at Northwestern University crafted a two-wheeled robot that operated partly on the electrical signals of a displaced lamprey’s brain (pic, video).17 The part of the brain used in the experiment normally keeps the lamprey upright in the water. When connected up correctly, the organ can guide the robot towards a light source.18
Scientists at the University of Tokyo are exploring ways that la cucaracha can become more socially redeeming. Using hardy American roaches, scientists remove their wings, insert electrodes in their antennae (more pics, schematics) and affix a tiny backpack of electric circuits and batteries to their carapace. The electrodes prod them to turn left and right, go backward and forward. The plan is to equip them with minicameras or other sensory devices.19, vi [Later that same year, the motion picture The Fifth Element (1997) featured a remote-controlled cockroach equipped with a camera.]
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute have…demonstrated electronic-based neuron transistors that can control the movement of a live leech from a computer. They can detect the firing of a nearby neuron, cause it to fire, or suppress a neuron from firing — all of which amounts to two-way communication between neurons and neuron transistors.20
Rats steered by a computer…could soon help find buried earthquake victims or dispose of bombs, scientists said [1 May 2002]. The remote-controlled “roborats” (more pics, audio, video) can be made to run, climb, jump or turn left and right through electrical probes, the width of a hair, implanted in their brains. Movement signals are transmitted from a computer to the rat’s brain via a radio receiver strapped to its back. One electrode stimulates the “feelgood” center of the rat’s brain, while two other electrodes activate the cerebral regions which process signals from its left and right whiskers.21 “They work for pleasure,” says Sanjiv Talwar, the bioengineer at the State University of New York who led the research team.… “The rat feels nirvana.” 22 Asked to speculate on potential military uses for robotic animals, Dr Talwar agreed they could, in theory, be put to some unpleasant uses, such as assassination.23
[In February 2007, scientists at the Robot Engineering Technology Research Centre at Shandong University of Science and Technology in China announced they had created remote-controlled pigeons (pic) after having had similar success implanting mice in 2005. Their next step is to improve the technology for practical use.]
A team of US scientists have wired a computer to a cat’s brain and created videos of what the animal was seeing. By recording the electrical activity of nerve cells in the thalamus, a region of the brain that receives signals from the eyes, researchers from the University of California at Berkeley were able to view these shapes.… They recorded the output from 177 brain cells that responded to light and dark in the cat's field of view. In total, the 177 cells were sensitive to a field of view of 6.4 by 6.4 degrees.… In the cat’s brain, as in ours, the signals from the thalamus cells undergo considerable signal processing in the higher regions of the brain that improve the quality of the image that is perceived. Taking an image from a region of the brain before this image enhancement has taken place will result in a poorer image than the cat is able to see.… Given time, it will be possible to record what one person sees and “play it back” to someone else either as it is happening or at a later date.24, vii
In 1870, two German researchers named [Eduard] Hitzig and [Gustav] Fritsch electrically stimulated the brains of dogs, demonstrating that certain portions of the brain were the centers of motor function. The American Dr. Robert Bartholow, within four years, demonstrated that the same was true of human beings. By the turn of the [twentieth] century in Germany Fedor Krause was able to do a systematic electrical mapping of the human brain, using conscious patients undergoing brain surgery [Morgan, James P., “The First Reported Case of Electrical Stimulation of the Human Brain,” Journal of History of Medicine at http://www3.oup.co.uk/jalsci/scope/; Zimmerman, M., “Electrical Stimulation of the Human Brain,” Human Neurobiology, 1982].
Another early researcher into electrical stimulation of the brain was Walter Rudolf Hess, who began research into ESB in the 1930s, jolting patients’ brains with shocks administered through tiny needles that pierced the skull.25 His experiments [also] included the insertion of fine electrically conductive wires into the brains of anaesthetized cats. To noone’s great surprise, given mild electrical stimulation the cats went beserk [Vance Packard, The People Shapers (New York: Bantam Books, 1977); “Hess, Walter Rudolf,” Encyclopedia Americana (New York: Harper & Row, 1969); “Hess, Walter Rudolph,” Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia (New York: Funk & Wagnalls Inc., 1973)].26
During the decades of the 1940s and 1950s, Wilder Penfield…experimented with electrical brain stimulation on patients undergoing surgery. One of Penfield’s discoveries was that the application of electricity on alert patients could stimulate the memory of past events [Project Open Mind] (full pic, video).
Since 1949, the Tulane University Department of Psychiatry and Neurology has done experimentation in the implantation of electrodes into patients’ brains. According to one of their staff-generated reports, “By implantation of electrodes into various predetermined specific brain sites of patients capable of reporting thoughts and feelings, we have been able to make invaluable long-term observations…” [“Stereotaxic Implantation of Electrodes in the Human Brain: A Method for Long-Term Study and Treatment,” Heath, John, Fontana, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University School of Medicine].
Other early researchers into direct brain stimulation were Robert G. Heath…and his associate, Dr. Russell Monroe. Beginning in 1950, with funding from the CIA and the military, among other sources, they implanted as many as 125 electrodes into subjects’ brains, and also experimented by injecting a wide variety of drugs directly into the brain tissue through small tubes; these drugs included LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline. One of Heath’s memorable suggestions was that lobotomy should be used on subjects, not as a therapeutic measure, but for the convenience of the staff [Heath, Robert G. Undated interview in Omni; Cannon, Martin, “Mind Control and the American Government,” Prevailing Winds, 1994; Human Rights Law Journal, “Freedom of the Mind as an International Human Rights Issue,” Vol. 3, No. 1-4; Ross, M.D., Dr. Colin, “The CIA and Military Mind Control Research: Building the Manchurian Candidate,” lecture given at Ninth Annual Western Clinical Conference on Trauma and Dissociation, April 18, 1996].27 Heath of Tulane University, who pioneered the electrical stimulation of human brains, has equipped dangerously aggressive mental patients with self-stimulators. A film shows a patient working himself out of a violent mood by pushing his stimulator button.28
In 1956, James Olds (pic) reported on research in which he had electrically stimulated the brains of rats. Implanting electrodes in rats’ pleasure center of the brain, he attached a device that allowed the rats to activate the electrical impulse. He found that the rats would become so obsessed with self-stimulation that they would literally starve themselves to death.29 Very similar results have since been achieved replacing rats with monkeys.30Jose Delgado, funded by Yale University, the Office of Naval Intelligence, the U.S. Air Force 6571st Aeromedical Research Laboratory, and other institutions, and linked to Spanish fascist groups by researcher John Judge,31…is the man who perfected the stimoceiver [or ‘transdermal stimulator’], a tiny electronic device that is implanted into the brains of humans and animals, and is used to transmit electrical impulses directly to the brain [Delgado, Jose, Physical Control of the Mind (New York: Harper & Row, 1969); and Judge, John, “The Secret Government,” Dharma Combat number 10].32
Delgado, in a series of experiments terrifying in their human potential, implanted electrodes in the skull of a bull. Waving a red cape, Delgado provoked the animal to charge. Then, with a signal emitted from a tiny hand-held radio transmitter, he made the beast turn aside in mid-lunge and trot docilely away.33 He has [also] been able to “play” monkeys and cats like “little electronic toys” that yawn, hide, fight, play, mate and go to sleepviii on command.34 The individual is defenseless against direct manipulation of the brain [Delgado, Physical Control].35
The open publication of Delgado’s book Physical Control of the Mind met with a decidedly cool reaction from the public, and this may have warned other researchers in the field to keep quiet about the subject. To this day, Delgado’s is the only popular book on the subject of implants and electrical stimulation of the brain.36
During the latter days of MKULTRA research, a CIA memorandum, dated 22 November, 1961, announced, “Initial biological work on techniques and brain locations essential to providing conditioning and control of animals has been completed. The feasibility of remote control of activities in several species of animals has been demonstrated.… The ultimate objective of this research is to provide an understanding of the mechanisms involved in the directional control of animals and to provide practical systems suitable for human application.” 37
Later breakthroughs in technology were documented in “Two-Way Transdermal Communication with the Brain,” published in 1975. By this time Delgado had linked his brain implants with computers. The monograph records,
The most interesting aspect of the transdermal stimoceivers is the ability to perform simultaneous recording and stimulation of brain functions, thereby permitting the establishment of feedbacks and ‘on-demand’ programs of excitation with the aid of the computer. With the increasing sophistication and miniaturization of electronics, it may be possible to compress the necessary circuitry for a small computer into a chip that is implantable subcutaneously. In this way, a new self-contained instrument could be devised, capable of receiving, analyzing, and sending back information to the brain, establishing artificial links between unrelated cerebral areas, functional feedbacks, and programs of stimulation contingent on the appearance of pre-determined patterns
[Delgado, Lipponen, Weiss, del Pozo, Monteagudo, and McMahon, “Two-Way Transdermal Communication with the Brain,” a co-operative publication of the Medical University of Madrid, Spain, and Yale University Medical School, 1975].38
Many popular articles on Delgado intend us to think that his primary purpose was the rehabilitation of the mentally and physically sick. This does not happen to be the case. Delgado was a blatant control freak. An example is Delgado’s experimentation on changing the social orientation of animals. One staging area for this experimentation was an island in the Bermudas, where Delgado maintained a free-roving population of gibbons with electronic implants, using electrical brain boosts to build and destroy social orders among those primates as if he was knocking down a row of dominoes [Packard, People Shapers].39
Although well cited, Delgado’s practical results on humans were extremely limited,ix as most of his research was either merely stated without a results base, or has been reported on second hand.… Reports have been made on his work on the ‘Pandora Project’, which involved modulating electromagnetic fields to a soldier’s head so that the soldier would lose self-control on the battle field. Reports also include how work was carried out to induce schizophrenia artificially through electrical stimulation of the septal zone in the human brain.40
Always a visionary in the Orwellian mold, Delgado said, “Looking into the future, it may be predicted that telerecording and telestimulation of the brain will be widely used” [Delgado, Jose, “Radio Stimulation of the Brain in Primates and Man,” New Haven, Connecticut: Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, 1969].41 He has urged the U.S. government to make “control of the mind” a national goal.42
Another researcher who specialized in brain implants is Dr. Stuart Mackay, who in 1968 penned a textbook titled Bio-Medical Telemetry. Mackay reported, “Among the many telemetry instruments being used today are miniature radio transmitters that can be swallowed, carried externally, or surgically implanted in man or animal. They permit the simultaneous study of behaviour and physiological functioning. The scope of observations is too broad to more than hint at a few examples. The possibilities are limited only by the imagination of the investigator” [Dr. Stuart Mackay, cited in Glenn Krawcyzyk, “Mind Control Techniques and Tactics of the New World Order,” Nexus, Dec-Jan 1993].43
By 1994, the London Times estimated that in the previous decade there had been 15,000 cases of persons being implanted with electronic brain devices. It is impossible to know if the Times estimate is at all accurate, since it is unlikely that they would be privy to statistics of secret testing. Certainly, most anti-mind control activists would say that the figure was a gross underestimate.44
In July 1996, information was released on research currently taking place into creation of a computer chip called the “Soul Catcher 2025.” Dr. Chris Winter and a team of scientists at British Telecom’s Martlesham Heath Laboratories, near Ipswich, are developing a chip that, when placed into the skull behind the eye, will record all visual and physical sensations, as well as thoughts. According to Winter, “This is the end of death… By combining this information with a record of the person’s genes, we could recreate a person physically, emotionally, and spiritually.” 45
“The brain is so complex that one wouldn’t at the outset think that replacing any of its parts is doable,” said Dr. Howard Eichenbaum, a professor of psychology at Boston University and director of the Laboratory of Cognitive Neurobiology there. But advances in neuroscience and computer engineering have made it possible to develop implanted circuits that mimic neural activities, he said. “At least in principle, it looks as though a chip imitating some functions of the hippocampus could be implanted in the future,” he said (pic). “It’s a huge, huge advance in simply duplicating the functions of the hippocampus, which in many ways Dr. [Theodore W.] Berger, [a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Southern California and the director of the Center for Neural Engineering there,] has done.” 46
Electrical devices called deep brain stimulators, essentially a pacemaker for the brain, have been used for some years to ease the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Now, they’ve just been approved for another degenerative brain disease called dystonia.… The brain stimulators don’t cure dystonia but…they can give patients a better quality of life. The beneficial effect has lasted for almost a decade so far in Parkinson’s patients, and it’s expected the dystonia effect will also be long lasting.47
Cyberkinetics Inc. of Foxboro, Mass., has received Food and Drug Administration approval [in 2004] to begin a clinical trial in which four-square-millimeter chips will be placed beneath the skulls of paralyzed patients 48 that would enable [them] to control computers directly with their brains or possibly help them move their limbs.… “Testing these implants in humans is the next step,” said Eberhard E. Fetz, professor at the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington, who has been experimenting with brain-signal devices since the late 1960s. “Within a decade, we’ll see these being used regularly to control prosthetic devices or activate a patient’s own muscles.” 49 At least two other research teams are planning similar brain-machine experiments in people.50
For the first time in humans [2004], a team headed by University researchers has placed an electronic grid atop patients’ brains to gather motor signals that enable the patients to play a computer game using only the signals from their brains. The use of a grid atop the brain to record the organ’s surface signals is a brain-machine interface technique that uses electrocorticographic (ECoG) activity — data taken invasively directly from the brain surface.… Eric C. Leuthardt, M.D., a WUSTL neurosurgeon at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, and Daniel Moran, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, performed their research on four adult epilepsy patients who had the grids implanted so that neurologists could find the area in the brain serving as the focus for an epileptic seizure, with hopes of removing it to avoid future seizures.… “To put this in perspective,” Leuthardt said, “the previous EEG-based x systems are equivalent to a 1908 Wright brothers airplane in regards to speed of learning to achieve control. Right now, with our results, we're flying around in an F-16 jet.” 51
Probes implanted in the brain for diagnosis and treatment could be improved with nanoscale carbon fibers. Biomedical engineer Thomas Webster from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana and colleagues developed a carbon nanofiber-reinforced plastic composite to determine whether it could improve neural and orthopedic prosthetics.
Neural prosthetics, usually made of silicon, can become covered in scar tissue. Orthopedic implants, usually made of titanium or titanium alloys, often become covered in soft tissue.
Knowing that carbon nanofibers and nanotubes have electrical and mechanical properties that might make them suitable for prosthesis, the researchers tested composites of 60-odd nanometer carbon nanofibers in polycarbonate urethane. Polycarbonate urethane is already approved for human use.
They found that neurons cultured on the nanofiber composite developed neurite extensions, which are the first step towards axons and a sign that the materials could encourage interactions essential to neural probes. Additionally, the material had less adhesion to astrocytes, which can impede neural function by producing scar tissue.
For orthopedic applications, the researchers found that bone-forming cells adhered better to composites with a high volume of nanofibers but cells that produce soft fibrous tissue stuck less readily.
The research is reported in the journal Nanotechnology (read abstract).52
[Related to brain implants are implants that are connected to nerves from different parts of the body. Professor Kevin Warwick, for example, had implants inserted into his and his wife’s arms allowing two-way communication. The results were published in his book, I, Cyborg.]
[Another man, whose arms needed to be amputated,] underwent surgery to graft existing nerve endings from his shoulder onto the pectoral muscle on his chest. Those nerves grew into the muscle after about six months. Electrodes on the graft can now pick up any thought-generated nerve impulses to the now-absent limb and transmit those to [a] mechanical prosthesis, controlling the movements of the [“bionic”] arm.53
[The television series Ripley’s Believe it or Not that aired on 5 June 2004 included a segment about French doctors who implanted a computer chip in a paralyzed man’s abdomin connected to implants in his legs that allowed him to stand and walk with a walker by means of computer control.]
We are Borg.
You will be assimilated.
Resistance is futile.54
Not everyone is thrilled at the prospect of a post-human future populated by cyborgs, designer children, conscious computers,xi immortals and disembodied minds roaming the Internet.… [Critics] think this could be the worst calamity to befall us, both as individuals and as a species.xii And they argue we should be taking steps to prevent it.55
If cyborgs are created with superhuman capabilities from a normal human start point, then it certainly brings about a threat to humanity itself. Perhaps the development of direct, military-style cyborgs might be possible to avoid. After all, when cyborgs exhibiting an intelligence that far surpasses that of humans are brought about, it will surely be the cyborgs themselves that make any decisions about how they treat humans.56
[Marvin Minsky, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence,] celebrates a future when humans will be able to “upload” the contents of their brains into computers or robot brains.… [Ray Kurzweil] recently called for replacing the body’s often imperfect molecular blueprint, DNA, with software.… “Transhumanists want to use technology to enhance and fulfill human potential,” [James Hughes, executive director of the World Transhumanist Association based in Willington, Conn.,] said. “That’s very hard to do if you die after only 70 years.” 57
“Humanity’s ability to alter its own brain function might well shape history as powerfully as the development of metallurgy in the Iron Age,” cognitive neuroscientist Martha Farah and eight co-authors write in a[n]…issue of Nature Reviews Neuroscience.58
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Say No To Microchip Implants M/36US i A handful of researchers are plumbing the potential of the bionic eye, including Wheaton, Ill.-based Optobionics Corp., led by Dr. Alan Chow, a pediatric ophthalmologist whose artificial silicon retinas have slight [sic] improved the vision of the six patients who’ve received them.
— Jim Krane (The Associated Press) “Bionic Eye Follows Bionic Ear,” Yahoo! News, 27 May 2002.
ii A small, precise dose of electricity can restore sight to some of the million or so Americans considered legally blind. For the past few months, two patients have made out doctors in white lab coats, among other things, thanks to a complex apparatus…made by Second Sight, a privately held firm in Santa Clarita, Calif. The device includes a tiny antenna inside the eye and a retinal implant with pencil-tip-size electrodes that fire electrical signals directly onto the optic nerves and brain. The resolution is extremely crude because there are only 16 electrodes, not enough to recognize faces. Second Sight and a consortium of research laboratories recently received a $9 million federal grant to find a way to squeeze 1,000 electrodes onto the array to make the picture sharper. Powered by an external battery, a mini video camera screwed into a pair of eyeglasses will wirelessly beam images to the array (pic) — all for an estimated cost, including surgery, of $25,000. Scientists concede facial recognition may be five to ten years away. So far, Second Sight has reported no negative side effects in the two patients undergoing clinical trials.
— Aliya Sternstein, “Seeing-Eye Chip,” Forbes, 14 Oct 2002.
iii A pea-sized miniature telescope inserted into the eye is showing promise in improving vision for people with macular degeneration.… Once the telescope is implanted, the eyes no longer work together because the brain cannot merge the magnified image in one eye with the normal image in the other eye. The one-hour surgery involves removing the eye lens and placing the telescope into the patient’s eye with the poorest vision. The eye telescope is one of the newest developments in a bionic revolution, in which plastic, metal and polymers are used to create artificial muscles, ears and other organs that researchers hope will improve the quality of life. “There’s no question there will be a tremendous number of advances in the future that will include devices, whether electrical or mechanical, which will enhance the function of our organs,” said Steve Goldstein, a University of Michigan Henry Ruppenthal family professor of orthopedic surgery and bioengineering.
— The Associated Press, “Miniature ‘bionic’ eye implant rescues vision,” USA Today, 8 Dec 2003.
iv An implantable chip that can serve as both a prosthetic retina and a drug delivery system has been developed to treat age-related blindness and conditions such as Parkinson’s disease. Created by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine in California, the chip communicates chemically rather than electrically, using neurotransmitters to stimulate cells.… Because the chip can draw droplets of fluid in as well as out, it could also enable researchers to take samples in real time, giving them a chemical picture of what goes on in living tissues during certain processes.
— Gabe Romain, “‘Wet’ Eye Chip Becomes Reality; Uses chemicals to work as artificial retina and drug delivery system,” BetterHumans, 23 June 2004.
v Physicians of the House Ear Clinic have successfully implanted the first two patients with a Penetrating Electrode Auditory Brainstem Implant (PABI), a revolutionary prosthetic device that is currently in clinical trials. The PABI is based on cochlear implant technology, but extends the utility to stimulating the hearing portions of the brain to restore some degree of hearing function to people deafened by bilateral tumors on their hearing and balance nerves (vestibular schwannomas). The PABI is a modified version of the existing Auditory Brainstem Implant (ABI) with the addition of an assembly of microelectrodes, designed to penetrate into the auditory portion of the brainstem (cochlear nucleus) and send sound signals to the brain.
— “First Successful Use of Penetrating Microelectrodes in Human Brainstem Restores Some Hearing to Deaf Patient,” Business Wire, 16 Jan 2004.
vi Be on guard next time you step into the shower. It might not be a regular cockroach watching you on the ceiling. It could be a well-heeled voyeur’s spy filming you!
— Ron Henderson, trans., “Cockroaches on a secret mission,” Sydsvenska Dagbladet, 18 Jan 1997, at http://magazine.magnus.se/artikele.asp?artikel=kackerla.
vii The idea that advance in neurotechnology will one day allow us to video our whole lives from somewhere inside our brains throws up all kinds of issues about privacy, about the world being a stage, about how we edit and censor our own memories and about how one day someone else may do this job for us.
— Lee Marshall, Screen review “The Final Cut,” at http://www.screendaily.com/story.asp?storyid=16330&r=true.
viii Sleep induced by electrical stimulation of the brain is similar to spontaneous sleep.
— José M. R. Delgado, M.D., Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society (New York: Harper & Row, 1969), p. 158.
ix In 1950 the Agency [CIA] tooled up for a battery of mind control experiments on human guinea pigs, underwritten by a network of scientific foundations and academic fronts. Neuropsychiatrists at Tulane, McGill, Yale, UCLA and Harvard, some of them laboring beside Nazi imports, researched the use of brain implants to control behavior.… A monograph written in the 1960s by Dr. Jose Delgado, a Yale psychiatrist hailing from Franco’s Spain, detailed his experiments on an 11-year-old boy with electrodes implanted in his brain. Dr. Delgado stimulated his young subject’s synapses with a radio transmitter at a range of 100 feet. The boy was immediately stripped of his sexual identity, reporting that he wasn’t sure if he was a boy or a girl.
— Alex Constantine, “Journal Preview; 12/95: The Constantine Report,” at http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/cnst-nws.htm.
x [Operant conditioning is used in the science of electroencephalograph (EEG)-based cursor control brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies. By successive training of mu (and beta) brainwaves, a cursor can be moved on a computer screen just by thinking about it.]
xi According to Moore’s Law, computer power doubles every 18 months, meaning that computers will be a million times more powerful by 2034. According to Nielsen’s Law of Internet bandwidth, connectivity to the home grows by 50 percent per year; by 2034, we’ll have 200,000 times more bandwidth. That same year, I’ll own a computer that runs at 3PHz CPU speed, has a petabyte (a thousand terabytes) of memory, half an exabyte (a billion gigabytes) of hard disk-equivalent storage and connects to the Internet with a bandwidth of a quarter terabit (a trillion binary digits) per second. The specifics may vary: Instead of following current Moore’s Law trajectories to speed up a single CPU, it’s likely that we’ll see multiprocessors, smart dust and other ways of getting the equivalent power through a more advanced computer architecture.… By 2034, we’ll finally get decent computer displays, with a resolution of about 20,000 pixels by 10,000 pixels (as opposed to the miserly 2048 pixels by 1536 pixels on my current monitor). Although welcomed, my predicted improvement factor of 200 here is relatively small; history shows that display technology has the most dismal improvement curve of any computer technology, except possibly batteries.
— Jakob Nielsen, “Thirty years with computers,” News.com, 27 May 2004.
xii [Ethicist Joel Anderson at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri,] points out that it will take time for people to accept the technology. “Initially people thought heart transplants were an abomination because they assumed that having the heart you were born with was an important part of who you are.”
— “World’s first brain prosthesis revealed,” NewScientist.com, 12 March 2003.
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Endnotes
1 Declan McCullagh, “Kurzweil: Rooting for the Machine,” Wired News, 3 Nov 2000.
2 José M. R. Delgado, M.D., Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society (New York: Harper & Row, 1969), p. 201.
3 Cochlear Hearing Implants, “New to Cochlear? Start Here,” at http://www.cochlearamericas.com/NewToCochlear/new_to_cochlear_in dex.asp.
4 Neil Gross, “Into the wild frontier,” Business Week, 23 June 1997, p. 74.
5 E. J. Mundell (Reuters Health), “Monkey Moves Computer Cursor by Thoughts Alone,” Yahoo! News, 30 Jan 2002.
6 Peter Passaro, “Is it Possible to Download Knowledge into the Brain? Mind-machine interfaces will be available in the near future, and several methods hold promise for implanting information,” Better Humans, 16 Jan 2004.
7 Amanda Onion, “Rat Robots: Scientists Develop Remote-Controlled Rats,” ABCNEWS.com, 2 May 2002.
8 “Rats Operate Robotic Arm Via Brain Activity,” Science Daily, 23 June 1999.
9 “Monkey brain operates machine,” BBC, 15 Nov 2000.
10 Rick Weiss, “Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants,” washingtonpost.com, 13 Oct 2003.
11 Mundell, “Monkey Moves Computer Cursor.”
12 Anne Eisenberg, “Don’t Point, Just Think: The Brain Wave as Joystick,” The New York Times, 28 March 2002.
13 Paul Eng, “Moving Thoughts: Scientists Study Brain Implants to Control PCs, Artificial Limbs,” ABCNEWS.com, 13 March 2002.
14 “Communicating with ‘thought power’,” BBC, 15 Oct 1998.
15 Jane Wakefield, “BodyTechnic: New funding for brain implants,” ZDNet UK News, 3 Dec 1998.
16 Eng, “Moving Thoughts.”
17 Onion, “Rat Robots.”
18 “Fish-brained robot at Science Museum,” BBC, 27 Nov 2000.
19 “Peepers creepers; Research at the University of Tokyo is investigating ways in which cockroaches with the mini-cameras can be used to locate vermin or perhaps even survivors of earthquakes,” Time, 27 Jan 1997, 149(4), p. 17.
20 Raymond Kurzweil, “Accelerated Living,” KurzweilAI.net, 24 Sep 2001; See also Ray Kurzweil, “Accelerated Living,” PC Magazine, 4 Sep 2001.
21Reuters, “Remote-Controlled Rats May Hunt Bombs and Bodies,” Yahoo! News, 2 May 2002.
22 Tom Clarke, “Here come the Ratbots; Desire drives remote-controlled rodents,” Nature, 2 May 2002.
23 James Meek, “Live rats driven by remote control,” The Guardian, 2 May 2002.
24 Dr David Whitehouse, “Looking through cats’ eyes,” BBC News, 11 Oct 1999; See also Garrett B. Stanley, Fei F. Li, and Yang Dan, “Reconstruction of Natural Scenes from Ensemble Responses in the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus,” The Journal of Neuroscience, 15 Sep 1999, 19(18):8036-8042.
25 Jim Keith, Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness (Lilburn, GA: IllumiNet Press, 1999), p. 94.
26 Jim Keith, Mind Control, World Control (Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press, 1998), p. 127.
27 Keith, Mass Control, pp. 94-95.
28 Vance Packard, The People Shapers (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1977), p. 45.
29 “Brain, Mind, and Altered States of Consciousness,” New Enlightenment.
30 Professor Kevin Warwick, I, Cyborg (London: Century, 2002), p. 110.
31 Keith, Mind Control, p. 127.
32 Keith, Mass Control, p. 97.
33 Alvin Toffler, Future Shock (Toronto: Bantam Books, 1988, 1970), p. 194.
34 John A. Osmundsen, “‘Matador’ With a Radio Stops Wired Bull,” The New York Times, 17 May 1965, CXIV(39,195), p. 20.
35 Jose Delgado, cited in Keith, Mind Control, p. 128.
36 Ibidem, pp. 129-130.
37 Ibidem, p. 130.
38 Keith, Mass Control, p. 99.
39 Ibidem, p. 100.
40 Ibidem, p. 101.
41 Warwick, I, Cyborg, p. 112.
42 Packard, People Shapers, p. 4.
43 Keith, Mass Control, p. 101.
44 Keith, Mind Control, p. 138.
45 Ibidem, p. 302.
46 Anne Eisenberg, “What’s Next; A Chip That Mimics Neurons, Firing Up the Memory,” The New York Times, 20 June 2002; See also USC Engineering News at http://www.usc.edu/dept/engineering/bergerNYT.
47 “Brain ‘Pacemaker’ Helps Alleviate Symptoms Of Dystonia; Disease Makes Patients Stiffen Up So Much They Lose Mobility,” wnbc.com, 21 July 2003.
48 Justin Pope (The Associated Press), “FDA Approves Human Brain Implant Devices,” Yahoo! News, 14 April 2004.
49 Jeffrey Krasner, “Approval sought to test brain implant; Neuron-fired device would aid paralyzed people, state firm says,” boston.com, 6 Nov 2003.
50 Ronald Kotulak, “I, CYBORG,” Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug 2004.
51 Tony Fitzpatrick, “Thought control: Human subjects play real mind games,” Record, 25 June 2004.
52 “Nanoscale Fibers Could Improve Neural Implants,” BetterHumans, 11 Dec 2003.
53 “Brain waves drive man’s bionic arm,” CNN.com, 25 Sep 2003.
54Star Trek, television series.
55 Margie Wylie (Religion News Service), “Transhumanists put their faith in technology,” Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2004.
56 Warwick, I, Cyborg, p. 239.
57 Wylie, “Transhumanists.”
58 Tom Siegfried, “Creating brain boosters demands smart approach,” DallasNews.com, 6 June 2004.
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Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society by Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness by Jim Keith
Mind Control, World Control by Jim Keith
The People Shapers by Vance Oakley Packard
Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
I, Cyborg by Kevin Warwick
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See also
The work of Jose Delgado, a pioneering star
Brain-machine interface: Can thoughts control machines?
CIA Mind Control
Brain implant timeline
George Orwell Meets the Matrix (timeline)
George Orwell Meets the Matrix by Maureen Farrell
Percutaneous pedestal
Cortical implants
Wetware (brain tissue computer chips)
Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Neuroprosthesis Research Organization
W. Ross Ashby’s “An Introduction to Cybernetics”
OpenEEG project
Cochlear and ocular implant videos:
MSNBC
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
CBS
Lamprey cyborg video:
TechTV
Rat cyborg audio:
BBC
Remote-controlled rat video:
BBC
Primate Research Could Lead to Robotic Prosthetic (audio) (29 Oct 2004):
NPR
Conditioning
Hypnotism
Cloning
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Remote-controlled rat
Examples of guided rat navigation using brain microstimulation. Sketches are constructed from digitized video recordings. Red dots indicate rat head positions at 1-s intervals; green dots indicate positions at which reward stimulations were administered to the medial forebrain bundle (MFB); blue arrows indicate positions at which right (R) and left (L) directional cues were issued; black arrows indicate positions 0.5 s after directional commands. a, Route followed by a rat guided through a slalom course. Inset, detail of the events that took place inside the dashed enclosure. b, Route taken by a rat guided over a three-dimensional obstacle course. The animal was instructed to climb a vertical ladder, cross a narrow ledge, descend a flight of steps, pass through a hoop and descend a steep (70º) ramp. Two rounds of high-density MFB stimulation were required to guide the rat successfully down the ramp, demonstrating the motivational qualities of MFB stimulation.
— Sanjiv K. Talwar, Shaohua Xu, Emerson S. Hawley, Shennan A. Weiss, Karen A. Moxon & John K. Chapin, “Behavioural neuroscience: Rat navigation guided by remote control,” Nature, 417, 37-38 (2002).
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Canadian and German researchers have grown snail nerve cells on a microchip and showed the cells have memory and can communicate. The researchers say this melding of machine and biology has a wide-range of potential applications.
— “Calgary scientist grows brain cells on microchip,” CBC News, 1 March 2004.
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A bright yellow slime mould that can grow to several metres in diameter has been put in charge of a scrabbling, six-legged robot. The Physarum polycephalum slime, which naturally shies away from light, controls the robot's movement so that it too keeps out of light and seeks out dark places in which to hide itself. They grew slime in a six-pointed star shape on top of a circuit and connected it remotely, via a computer, to the hexapod bot. Any light shone on sensors mounted on top of the robot were used to control light shone onto one of the six points of the circuit-mounted mould – each corresponding to a leg of the bot. As the slime tried to get away from the light its movement was sensed by the circuit and used to control one of the robot's six legs. The robot then scrabbled away from bright lights as a mechanical embodiment of the mould.
— Will Knight, “Robot moved by slime mould’s fears,” NewScientist, 13 Feb 2006.
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A microscopic view of rat neurons growing on a multi-electrode array in a petri dish trained to pilot a virtual F-22 fighter jet.
See: Wetware.
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Say No To Microchip Implants M/36US There is an agenda to have the population implanted with microchips, and ultimately, with brain chips. The necessary research for this agenda has been done over the last few decades, involving experimenting with inserting electrodes and implants into the brains of animals, and humans, and interfacing with computers.
On a socio-cultural level, this agenda has also involved the normalisation of various new technologies - in conjunction with the gradual alteration of certain behavioural norms - as a step-by-step tip-toeing towards this goal of mass microchip implantation, all pre-planned in advance. These technologies include the personal computer and the videogames console (along with the internet), the mobile phone, the iPod (and its predecessors), RFID-tags and of course, the implantable microchip itself.
It takes many years to implement these changes successfully. From the perspective of the ruling elite, all necessary steps must be overseen properly and everything must be done thoroughly, and in the right order. Any particular step cannot be missed out, and corners cannot be cut, because doing so could create unpredictable consequences which may threaten the success of their agenda - an agenda which is increasingly obviously a "must be". Such long-term goals take decades to bring about and because they come in so gradually over such a long period of time - much longer than the average person’s plans - most people don’t ever realise that they are actually witnessing a long-term agenda unfolding in their own lifetime.
Thousands of people have already taken microchip implants in their arms. We are now seeing the end stages of this particular long-term agenda. We must fight it.
The brain chip is now ready, and has been for years. There have been annual international science meetings held at Loyola University, Louisiana, starting in 2001. Scientists attending these meetings have said that the brain chip is ready, and that it is now just a matter of conditioning the public to accept them. They said that one way in which this would be achieved - not could be, would be - is by promoting them in movies, books and cartoons for children. Since then there have been cartoons in which the heroes have brain chips that give them special powers, such as Galaxy Rangers:
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And we have also had movies like The Final Cut, with Robin Williams, and The Stepford Wives, with Christopher Walken, Bette Midler, Nicole Kidman, etc. both featuring brain chips. And in 2006 we saw James Bond being chipped in Casino Royale, although not with a brain chip – yet!
There are many other movies featuring microchip implants, to varying degrees e.g. Demolition Man, A Beautiful Mind, and other movies featuring brain chips e.g. Johnny Mnemonic. There have also been movies incorporating technology which interacts with the brain to create an alternate reality e.g. eXistenZ, The Lawnmower Man and of course, The Matrix trilogy.
So we should be on our guard against the continuation of this propaganda campaign aimed at promoting the idea of microchip implants to the people, and then later, the brain chip. We should keep in mind the fact that the ruling elite want us to be chipped, for their benefit, not for ours.
There will almost certainly be many people who will agree to be chipped. Maybe they will take a chip out of fear of not being able to function within the system without one, or maybe they will want a brain chip to provide an escape from the ever-increasing levels of terror, or just because they like the idea of being a cyborg. Whatever the reason, once the brain chip is in, it's staying in. And given their track record throughout the ages, I don't trust the ruling elite to put anything harmless into our brains. Do you?
Scientists at the Loyola University meetings also said that when everything is finalised and the people are brain chipped, it would be more like a hive mind situation. A Japanese scientist said that you would no longer be able to perceive yourself as a distinct, separate individual. He said that you would constantly hear the buzz of thoughts going back and forth between the chips and the regional super-computers (which are also ready now) and you would not be able to distinguish this from your own thoughts. So the importance of fighting this agenda cannot be overstated - ultimately it is about individual consciousness, the enemy of the enemy.
The scientists didn’t discuss politics, as they are well aware that this is an agenda, and it is above politics. They know that politics is nothing more than a wrestling match, a Punch and Judy show for the dumbed-down masses.
These meetings and much more are discussed by Alan Watt in the mp3s posted below.
There are dozens of free downloadable mp3s on Alan Watt's website detailing various aspects of the global agenda - or New World Order, or whatever label you want to use - including several about the microchip agenda.
Here are some of the relevant mp3s and transcripts:
Dec 13, 2006 Alan Watt Blurb
"A Chip Off the Ashlar or the Old Masonic Block" - mp3 - transcript
Alan reads from a highly revealing article about the microchipping agenda, which was in the Toronto Star on December 10th.
Dec 20, 2006 Alan Watt Blurb
"Brain Implant Familiarization and the Front-Men Who Plug-It" - mp3 - transcript
Frontman Professor Kevin Warwick is discussed.
December 31, 2006 Alan Watt on Red-Ice Radio
"The Microchip & Technocracy" - mp3 - transcript
Alan Watt is back for his monthly visit and we begin this program talking about the implementation of the implantable microchip. We get into talking about global taxation and justification of surveillance due to the threat of 'global warming' and climate change. Is there any danger in brain computer interface and the concept behind transhumanism. How does this connection with the 'net' or the 'World Wide Web' is there something more behind that term? We also talk about the ruling bloodlines and their interest in DNA and breeding.
Jan 18, 2007 Alan Watt Blurb
"Masons, Microchips and the Battle for the Mind" - mp3 - transcript
Jan 19, 2007 Alan Watt Mini Blurb
"Mason's Microchip" - mp3 - transcript
Feb 22, 2007 Alan Watt Blurb
"IBM = Eye-Bee-M(A Son) = Eye-Beam = I Am Bee.
Bee = Cell = Cell Phone" - mp3 - transcript
March 14, 2007 Alan Watt Blurb
"Abandonment of Self for Programmed Security and Management (Existing as Non-Comprehending Peaceful Citizens)" - mp3 - transcript
Alan Reads from the Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics Journal
The Implantable Brainchips: Ethical and Policy Issues, Winter 2001, by Ellen M McGee PhD, Director of Long Island Centre for Ethics, Long Island University, and Gerald Q Maguire Jr PhD, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
May 3, 2007 Alan Watt Blurb
"Authorized Voice-to-Skull Advertising Preparing You for Brain-Chipped Hive - Happy Habitats and Concentration-Slum Areas (Camps)" - mp3 - transcript
June 13, 2007 Alan Watt Blurb
"Stop This Program, I Want to Get Off! - Better Living through Borgism" - mp3 - transcript
July 25, 2007 Alan Watt Blurb
"Chertoff's CREATE-ORS of Chaos, Paranoia and Control" - mp3 - transcript
Dec. 17, 2007 - Alan Watt "Cutting Through The Matrix" on RBN (adverts removed)
"Exodus from Physical Slavery to Virtual Slavery - The Surrender of Consciousness" - mp3 - transcript
(Article: "'Exodus' to virtual worlds predicted" BBC News, bbc.co.uk - Dec. 11, 2007.)
Feb. 8, 2008 - Alan Watt "Cutting Through The Matrix" on RBN (adverts removed)
"Technique of Intergenerational Reality Alteration and Guidance - (a) I Know, (b) That's Possible, (c) I'm Now Unsure, (d) What's Everyone Thinking? (e) I'll Follow Them." - mp3 - transcript available soon.
(Article: "Life is one big computer game" Metro (metro.co.uk) - Feb. 5, 2008.)
(Article: "Exclusive! The FBI Deputizes Business" by Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive Magazine (progressive.org) - February 7, 2008.)
There are some relevant articles in the articles section of Alan Watt's website. There are also several more mp3s in which this agenda is briefly discussed, e.g. the Red Ice interviews from October 22nd (Part 2) and June 25th (Part 2), and the blurbs from December 1st and December 6th, and others - available here (transcripts).
Another important blurb is April 13, 2007 "Pathocrats' Conspiracy AGENDA for Upcoming Generation (from Ministry of Defence)" - mp3 - transcript - in which Watt discusses a document released by the Ministry of Defense, mentioned in The Guardian, which discusses a brainchipped population by 2035, "flashmobs", revolutionary middle classes, and the possible use of neutron bombs on the population.
Someone has made a video corresponding to this blurb and put it up on google video.
Flashmobs, Revolutions and brainchips (42mins)
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There are other free Alan Watt videos there (not to be confused with Alan Watts).
There is also a downloadable 405-page NBIC report (as mentioned in the July 23 2002 article "US report foretells of brave new world Nathan Cochrane") in Watt's article section, entitled "Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance"
National Science Foundation / Department Of Commerce-sponsored report - June 2002 (PDF file approx. 7 MB)
(NBIC = nanotechnology, biotechnology, IT and cognitive sciences)
And there is also a downloadable 280-page NSET report entitled "Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology"
NSET Workshop Report - National Science Foundation - March 2001
Logistical, Editing and Management Assistance by:
International Technology Research Institute, World Technology (WTEC) Division, Loyola College (PDF file approx. 3 MB)
(NSET = Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology)
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I had no idea Alan Watt was homosexual. Or is it just gay for pay?
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Say No To Microchip Implants M/36US In order to convince people to take a brain chip some time in the future, it is first necessary to normalise the idea of implanting a microchip into the body, typically the upper arm. This conditioning process started several years ago, and there are currently thousands of people with these microchip implants.
Videos:
The implantable Microchip (9mins 20s)
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IBM, Verichip, and the Fouth Reich (8mins 29s)
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Operation Lie and Deceive Verichip Style (8mins 1s)
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Mind Control Microchip Verichip - Welcome to the Machines (6mins 40s)
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The Biochip (9mins 14s)
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BBC Money Programme: The Real Big Brother
BBC Microchip pt.1 (9mins 58s)
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BBC Microchip pt.2 (9mins 58s)
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BBC Microchip pt.3 (9mins 4s)
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(Youtube videos can be downloaded as FLV files - save with .flv at the end of the file name - from http://keepvid.com)
Katherine Albrecht - Big Brother, The Chip and the Mark of The Beast (4mins 21s)
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There are more videos and audios featuring Katherine Albrecht in this thread.
Freedom to Fascism the Microchip (9mins 38s)
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MicroChip ID - National Geografic Channel ® Pt.1 (5mins 25s)
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MIcroChip ID - National Geografic Channel ® Pt.2 (2mins 37s)
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MIcrochipping the Troops!! ® (2mins 28s)
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Aaron Russo discusses the long-term global agenda (revealed to him by Nick Rockefeller) including plans to microchip the population (1hr 9mins)
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Shorter 15-minute version
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Aaron Russo has sadly passed away. Rest in Peace.
There is also an extract from the above interview with Aaron Russo in the following video, taken from Zeitgeist The Movie:
NORTH AMERICAN UNION & VCHIP TRUTH (9mins 12s)
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Say No To Microchip Implants M/36US (mp3s 1 and 2) Predictive programming (transcript 1 and 2) and propaganda from PBS:
PBS documentary: 22nd Century - World Wide Mind (56mins)
Alan Watt discusses the above video in his Jan 18, 2007 blurb
"Masons, Microchips and the Battle for the Mind" - mp3 - transcript.
BBC Horizon - Human 2.0 (44mins 57s)
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The Brain Chip
Have you ever closed your eyes at some point and wished you could make something happen -- just by thinking it. Well science isn't quite there yet, but it's close.
A technology called BrainGate holds the promise that quadriplegics will be able to do things like surf the Web, write e-mails and play video games just with brainpower. It works with a microchip and electrodes; a tiny device implanted in the brain that transmits intention to a computer cursor.
BrainGate has already been tested on one person, and the Food and Drug Administration has given the company permission to test the technology on four more people. The success of the first trial has given hope to many, but also opens up a number of concerns about how the technology might be misused.
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John Donoghue, head of the neuroscience department at Brown University and co-founder of Cyberkinetics
Miguel Nicoleli, professor in Duke University's neurobiology department.
Hosted by: Dick Gordon
Show Originally Aired: 6/28/2005
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Say No To Microchip Implants M/36US One generation is all they need
Toronto Star | Dec. 10, 2006
By KEVIN HAGGERTY
One day we will all happily be implanted with microchips, and our every move will be monitored. The technology exists; the only barrier is society’s resistance to the loss of privacy
By the time my four-year-old son is swathed in the soft flesh of old age, he will likely find it unremarkable that he and almost everyone he knows will be permanently implanted with a microchip. Automatically tracking his location in real time, it will connect him with databases monitoring and recording his smallest behavioural traits.
Most people anticipate such a prospect with a sense of horrified disbelief, dismissing it as a science-fiction fantasy. The technology, however, already exists. For years humane societies have implanted all the pets that leave their premises with a small identifying microchip. As well, millions of consumer goods are now traced with tiny radio frequency identification chips that allow satellites to reveal their exact location.
A select group of people are already “chipped” with devices that automatically open doors, turn on lights, and perform other low-level miracles. Prominent among such individuals is researcher Kevin Warwick of Reading University in England; Warwick is a leading proponent of the almost limitless potential uses for such chips.
Other users include the patrons of the Baja Beach Club in Barcelona, many of whom have paid about $150 (U.S.) for the privilege of being implanted with an identifying chip that allows them to bypass lengthy club queues and purchase drinks by being scanned. These individuals are the advance guard of an effort to expand the technology as widely as possible.
From this point forward, microchips will become progressively smaller, less invasive, and easier to deploy. Thus, any realistic barrier to the wholesale “chipping” of Western citizens is not technological but cultural. It relies upon the visceral reaction against the prospect of being personally marked as one component in a massive human inventory.
Today we might strongly hold such beliefs, but sensibilities can, and probably will, change. How this remarkable attitudinal transformation is likely to occur is clear to anyone who has paid attention to privacy issues over the past quarter-century. There will be no 3 a.m. knock on the door by storm troopers come to force implants into our bodies. The process will be more subtle and cumulative, couched in the unassailable language of progress and social betterment, and mimicking many of the processes that have contributed to the expansion of closed-circuit television cameras and the corporate market in personal data.
A series of tried and tested strategies will be marshalled to familiarize citizens with the technology. These will be coupled with efforts to pressure tainted social groups and entice the remainder of the population into being chipped.
This, then, is how the next generation will come to be microchipped.
It starts in distant countries. Having tested the technology on guinea pigs, both human and animal, the first widespread use of human implanting will occur in nations at the periphery of the Western world. Such developments are important in their own right, but their international significance pertains to how they familiarize a global audience with the technology and habituate them to the idea that chipping represents a potential future.
An increasing array of hypothetical chipping scenarios will also be depicted in entertainment media, furthering the familiarization process.
In the West, chips will first be implanted in members of stigmatized groups. Pedophiles are the leading candidate for this distinction, although it could start with terrorists, drug dealers, or whatever happens to be that year’s most vilified criminals. Short-lived promises will be made that the technology will only be used on the “worst of the worst.” In fact, the wholesale chipping of incarcerated individuals will quickly ensue, encompassing people on probation and on parole.
Even accused individuals will be tagged, a measure justified on the grounds that it would stop them from fleeing justice. Many prisoners will welcome this development, since only chipped inmates will be eligible for parole, weekend release, or community sentences. From the prison system will emerge an evocative vocabulary distinguishing chippers from non-chippers.
Although the chips will be justified as a way to reduce fraud and other crimes, criminals will almost immediately develop techniques to simulate other people’s chip codes and manipulate their data.
The comparatively small size of the incarcerated population, however, means that prisons would be simply a brief stopover on a longer voyage. Commercial success is contingent on making serious inroads into tagging the larger population of law-abiding citizens. Other stigmatized groups will therefore be targeted. This will undoubtedly entail monitoring welfare recipients, a move justified to reduce fraud, enhance efficiency, and ensure that the poor do not receive “undeserved” benefits.
Once e-commerce is sufficiently advanced, welfare recipients will receive their benefits as electronic vouchers stored on their microchips, a policy that will be tinged with a sense of righteousness, as it will help ensure that clients can only purchase government-approved goods from select merchants, reducing the always disconcerting prospect that poor people might use their limited funds to purchase alcohol or tobacco.
Civil libertarians will try to foster a debate on these developments. Their attempts to prohibit chipping will be handicapped by the inherent difficulty in animating public sympathy for criminals and welfare recipients — groups that many citizens are only too happy to see subjected to tighter regulation. Indeed, the lesser public concern for such groups is an inherent part of the unarticulated rationale for why coerced chipping will be disproportionately directed at the stigmatized.
The official privacy arm of the government will now take up the issue. Mandated to determine the legality of such initiatives, privacy commissioners and Senate Committees will produce a forest of reports presented at an archipelago of international conferences. Hampered by lengthy research and publication timelines, their findings will be delivered long after the widespread adoption of chipping is effectively a fait accompli. The research conclusions on the effectiveness of such technologies will be mixed and open to interpretation.
Officials will vociferously reassure the chipping industry that they do not oppose chipping itself, which has fast become a growing commercial sector. Instead, they are simply seeking to ensure that the technology is used fairly and that data on the chips is not misused. New policies will be drafted.
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What might Hitler, Mao or Milosevic have accomplished if their citizens were chipped, coded, and remotely monitored?
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Employers will start to expect implants as a condition of getting a job. The U.S. military will lead the way, requiring chips for all soldiers as a means to enhance battlefield command and control — and to identify human remains. From cooks to commandos, every one of the more than one million U.S. military personnel will see microchips replace their dog tags.
Following quickly behind will be the massive security sector. Security guards, police officers, and correctional workers will all be expected to have a chip. Individuals with sensitive jobs will find themselves in the same position.
The first signs of this stage are already apparent. In 2004, the Mexican attorney general’s office started implanting employees to restrict access to secure areas. The category of “sensitive occupation” will be expansive to the point that anyone with a job that requires keys, a password, security clearance, or identification badge will have those replaced by a chip.
Judges hearing cases on the constitutionality of these measures will conclude that chipping policies are within legal limits. The thin veneer of “voluntariness” coating many of these programs will allow the judiciary to maintain that individuals are not being coerced into using the technology.
In situations where the chips are clearly forced on people, the judgments will deem them to be undeniable infringements of the right to privacy. However, they will then invoke the nebulous and historically shifting standard of “reasonableness” to pronounce coerced chipping a reasonable infringement on privacy rights in a context of demands for governmental efficiency and the pressing need to enhance security in light of the still ongoing wars on terror, drugs, and crime.
At this juncture, an unfortunately common tragedy of modern life will occur: A small child, likely a photogenic toddler, will be murdered or horrifically abused. It will happen in one of the media capitals of the Western world, thereby ensuring non-stop breathless coverage. Chip manufactures will recognize this as the opportunity they have been anticipating for years. With their technology now largely bug-free, familiar to most citizens and comparatively inexpensive, manufacturers will partner with the police to launch a high-profile campaign encouraging parents to implant their children “to ensure your own peace of mind.”
Special deals will be offered. Implants will be free, providing the family registers for monitoring services. Loving but unnerved parents will be reassured by the ability to integrate tagging with other functions on their PDA so they can see their child any time from any place.
Paralleling these developments will be initiatives that employ the logic of convenience to entice the increasingly small group of holdouts to embrace the now common practice of being tagged. At first, such convenience tagging will be reserved for the highest echelon of Western society, allowing the elite to move unencumbered through the physical and informational corridors of power. Such practices will spread more widely as the benefits of being chipped become more prosaic. Chipped individuals will, for example, move more rapidly through customs.
Indeed, it will ultimately become a condition of using mass-transit systems that officials be allowed to monitor your chip. Companies will offer discounts to individuals who pay by using funds stored on their embedded chip, on the small-print condition that the merchant can access large swaths of their personal data. These “discounts” are effectively punitive pricing schemes, charging unchipped individuals more as a way to encourage them to submit to monitoring. Corporations will seek out the personal data in hopes of producing ever more fine-grained customer profiles for marketing purposes, and to sell to other institutions.
By this point all major organizations will be looking for opportunities to capitalize on the possibilities inherent in an almost universally chipped population. The uses of chips proliferate, as do the types of discounts. Each new generation of household technology becomes configured to operate by interacting with a person’s chip.
Finding a computer or appliance that will run though old-fashioned “hands-on”‘ interactions becomes progressively more difficult and costly. Patients in hospitals and community care will be routinely chipped, allowing medical staff — or, more accurately, remote computers — to monitor their biological systems in real time.
Eager to reduce the health costs associated with a largely docile citizenry, authorities will provide tax incentives to individuals who exercise regularly. Personal chips will be remotely monitored to ensure that their heart rate is consistent with an exercise regime.
By now, the actual process of “chipping” for many individuals will simply involve activating certain functions of their existing chip. Any prospect of removing the chip will become increasingly untenable, as having a chip will be a precondition for engaging in the main dynamics of modern life, such as shopping, voting, and driving.
The remaining holdouts will grow increasingly weary of Luddite jokes and subtle accusations that they have something to hide. Exasperated at repeatedly watching neighbours bypass them in “chipped” lines while they remain subject to the delays, inconveniences, and costs reserved for the unchipped, they too will choose the path of least resistance and get an implant.
In one generation, then, the cultural distaste many might see as an innate reaction to the prospect of having our bodies marked like those of an inmate in a concentration camp will likely fade.
In the coming years some of the most powerful institutional actors in society will start to align themselves to entice, coerce, and occasionally compel the next generation to get an implant.
Now, therefore, is the time to contemplate the unprecedented dangers of this scenario. The most serious of these concern how even comparatively stable modern societies will, in times of fear, embrace treacherous promises. How would the prejudices of a Joe McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover, or of southern Klansmen — all of whom were deeply integrated into the American political establishment — have manifest themselves in such a world? What might Hitler, Mao or Milosevic have accomplished if their citizens were chipped, coded, and remotely monitored?
Choirs of testimonials will soon start to sing the virtues of implants. Calm reassurances will be forthcoming about democratic traditions, the rule of law, and privacy rights. History, unfortunately, shows that things can go disastrously wrong, and that this happens with disconcerting regularity. Little in the way of international agreements, legality, or democratic sensibilities has proved capable of thwarting single-minded ruthlessness.
“It can’t happen here” has become the whispered swan song of the disappeared. Best to contemplate these dystopian potentials before we proffer the tender forearms of our sons and daughters. While we cannot anticipate all of the positive advantages that might be derived from this technology, the negative prospects are almost too terrifying to contemplate.
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Alan Watt discussed this article at length in his blurb from December 13th 2006 "A Chip Off the Ashlar or the Old Masonic Block" - transcript.
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Say No To Microchip Implants M/36US Think tank: depopulation, brain-chipping on the horizon
An organization headed by a former World Bank president the author of “Future Shock” predicts a dismal future for Americans.
24 million disabled Americans, most suffering from diseases caused by excess consumption, will require special public transportation to go to treatment centers, according to the World Future Society.
The WFS, whose directors include former World Bank president and U.S Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, and the futurist author Alvin Toffler, also predicts that the able-bodied will flee to other parts of the world, such as China and India, for work.
And healthy or not, young or old, most can look forward to being brain-chipped, and connected permanently to a global computer network, according to the WFS.
The WFS portrays the brain-chipping scenario as one of the few pluses on its list.
More of the WFS’s grim forecasts for the next 25 years: China’s drinking water supply will be virtually depleted, and global warming-generated super storms will cost hundreds of billions of dollars in damages annually.
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Forecasts
#1: Generation Y will migrate heavily overseas.
#2: Dwindling supplies of water in China will impact the global economy.
#3: Workers will increasingly choose more time over more money.
#4: We’ll incorporate wireless technology into our thought processing by 2030.
#5: Children’s “nature deficit disorder” will grow as a health threat.
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Urban wireless to serve intel and PSYOP forces
The government needs more nodes: Various agencies want to seed cities with wireless networking devices (image from a DOD document·
Despite the high costs and unproven social benefits for municipal broadband, dozens of U.S. cities are ignoring laws banning anti-competitive practices and getting into the internet business.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Defense is planning to build robots that configure themselves into ad hoc wireless networks within urban areas.
City mayors claim they want to provide free and low-cost Wi-Fi access to the poor and attract business travelers. Defense planners say they need to have broadband capabilities in urban war zones.
But rather than closing the “digital divide” (which many academics admit is being exaggerated), or providing a redundant service to traveling salesmen, it appears that officials aim to seize control of internet communications and track individuals in urban areas.
Military and law enforcement agencies will also use the wireless networks to stage “hard PSYOP” attacks against a brain-chipped populace, according to historian and commentator Alan Watt, who specializes in secret societies and government intelligence operations.
Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston, and Providence, R.I. are among the cities partnering with private companies and the federal government to set up public broadband internet access. Providence used Homeland Security funds to construct a network for police, which may be made available to the public at a later date.
None of the cities are expected to turn a profit anytime soon. Nor are the poor likely to benefit from the projects.
Subscribers to Philly’s “Wireless Philadelphia” service, for example, will pay up to 73 percent more than the rate promised to them two years ago.
“(Philadelphia) presented dangerously inaccurate estimates and figures for the costs and revenue” for its wireless network, according to a recent analysis. by students at Harvard Law School.
Seeding: The DOD envisions soldiers dropping robots into cities. The robots will self-configure into what are known as “mesh networks.”
City officials have managed to line their own pockets, however.
Philadelphia’s former chief information officer, Dianah Neff (below, left), now works for Civitium, the consulting firm she paid $300,000 to help build Philly’s Wi-Fi network.
Denise Brady, San Francisco’s former deputy CIO, also took a position with Civitium after bringing the firm her city’s business.
San Franciscans might actually lose more than money to their city’s muni Wi-Fi scheme.
Google and Earthlink, the companies building San Francisco’s Wi-Fi network, want to place cameras and sensors atop lampposts at the same time they are installing their Wi-Fi antennae. The companies say they merely want to help police and emergency workers.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU have opposed such police/public proposals.
But even if the cities fail to complete their Wi-Fi projects, the military will be able to set up wireless networks within hours, perhaps even faster.
The DOD, which is in the middle of joint urban war-games with Homeland Security and Canadian, Israeli and other international forces, is experimenting with Wi-Fi networks it can set up on the fly.
According to a recent DOD announcement for contractors, soldiers will be able to drop robots, called LANdroids (below, left), when they arrive in a city. The robots will then scurry off to position themselves, becoming nodes for a wireless communications network. (Click here to download a PDF of the DOD announcement.)
The Wi-Fi antennae dotting the urban landscape will serve not only as communications relays, but as transponders that can pinpoint the exact positions of of individual computers and mobile phones–a scenario I described in the Boston Globe last year.
In other words, where GPS loses site of a device (and its owner), Wi-Fi will pick up the trail.
The antennae will also relay orders to the brain-chipped masses, members of the British Ministry of Defense and the DOD believe.
“We already are evolving toward technology implanting,” reads a 1996 Air Force report.
People, already conditioned to receiving biological agents such as flu shots in their bodies, will welcome brain chips that promise to help them control technology, the Air Force report says.
Indeed, Alan Watt believes one of the purposes of muni Wi-Fi and LANdroids will be to disseminate commands and propaganda directly into the human brain.
Tracking and control of information via wireless networks are just the beginning, Watt said. “The implanted chip will be the end goal.”
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Say No To Microchip Implants M/36US US report foretells of brave new world
By Nathan Cochrane
July 23 2002
A draft government report says we will alter human evolution within 20 years by combining what we know of nanotechnology, biotechnology, IT and cognitive sciences. The 405-page report sponsored by the US National Science Foundation and Commerce Department, Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance, calls for a broad-based research program to improve human performance leading to telepathy, machine-to-human communication, amplified personal sensory devices and enhanced intellectual capacity.
People may download their consciousnesses into computers or other bodies even on the other side of the solar system, or participate in a giant "hive mind", a network of intelligences connected through ultra-fast communications networks. "With knowledge no longer encapsulated in individuals, the distinction between individuals and the entirety of humanity would blur," the report says. "Think Vulcan mind-meld. We would perhaps become more of a hive mind - an enormous, single, intelligent entity."
Armies may one day be fielded by machines that think for themselves while devices will respond to soldiers' commands before their thoughts are fully formed, it says. The report says the abilities are within our grasp but will require an intense public-relations effort to "prepare key organisations and societal activities for the changes made possible by converging technologies", and to counter concern over "ethical, legal and moral" issues. Education should be overhauled down to the primary-school level to bridge curriculum gaps between disparate subject areas.
Professional societies should be open to practitioners from other fields, it says. "The success of this convergent-technologies priority area is crucial to the future of humanity," the report says. wtec.org/ConvergingTechnologies/Report/NBIC-pre-publication.pdf
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The article above mentions a 405-page report sponsored by "The US National Science Foundation and Commerce Department, Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance."
NBIC 405-page report (PDF - 7MB)
(NBIC = Nano Bio Info Cogno)
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Say No To Microchip Implants M/36US Pentagon to implant microchips in soldiers' brains
The Department of Defense is planning to implant microchips in soldiers' brains for monitoring their health information, and has already awarded a $1.6 million contract to the Center for Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips (C3B) at Clemson University for the development of an implantable "biochip".
Soldiers fear that the biochip, about the size of a grain of rice, which measures and relays information on soldiers vital signs 24 hours a day, can be used to put them under surveillance even when they are off duty.
But Anthony Guiseppi-Elie, C3B director and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Bioengineering claims the that the invivo biosensors will save lives as first responders to the trauma scene could inject the biochip into the wounded victim and gather data almost immediately.
He believes that the device has other long-term potential applications, such as monitoring astronauts’ vital signs during long-duration space flights and reading blood-sugar levels for diabetics.
“We now lose a large percentage of patients to bleeding, and getting vital information such as how much oxygen is in the tissue back to ER physicians and medical personnel can often mean the difference between life and death,” said Guiseppi-Elie. “Our goal is to improve the quality and expediency of care for fallen soldiers and civilian trauma victims.” The biochip also may be injected as a precaution to future traumas."
Clemson scientists have formulated a gel that mimics human tissue and reduces the chances of the body rejecting the biochip, which has been a problem in the past.
The researcher predicts the biochip is five years away from human trials, and the DoD could start implanting microchips in soldiers bodies soon after.
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Say No To Microchip Implants M/36US Microchip Mind Control, Implants And Cybernetics
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Actual 1974 Congressional Testimony of Dr. Jose Delgado -
"We need a program of PSYCHOSURGERY for POLITICAL CONTROL of our society. The purpose is PHYSICAL CONTROL OF THE MIND. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be SURGICALLY MUTILATED.
"The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective.
"Man does NOT HAVE THE RIGHT to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must ELECTRICALLY CONTROL THE BRAIN. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain."
Dr. Jose M.R. Delgado Director of Neuropsychiatry Yale University Medical School Congressional Record, No. 26, Vol. 118 February 24, 1974
(Author of "PHYSICAL CONTROL OF THE MIND" 1969)
The following article was originally published in the 36th-year edition of the Finnish-language journal, SPEKULA (3rd Quarter, 1999). SPEKULA is a publication of Northern Finland medical students and doctors of Oulu University OLK (OULUN LAAKETIETEELLINEN KILTA).
MICROCHIP IMPLANTS, MINDCONTROL AND CYBERNETICS
By Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, MD Former Chief Medical Officer of Finland
In 1948 Norbert Weiner published a book, CYBERNETICS, defined as a neurological communication and control theory already in use in small circles at that time. Yoneji Masuda, "Father of Information Society," stated his concern in 1980 that our liberty is threatened Orwellian-style by cybernetic technology totally unknown to most people. This technology links the brains of people via implanted microchips to satellites controlled by ground-based super-computers.
The first brain implants were surgically inserted in 1874 in the state of Ohio, U.S.A., and also in Stockholm, Sweden. Brain electrodes were inserted into the skulls of babies in 1946 without the knowledge of their parents. In the 50's and 60's, electrical implants were inserted into the brains of animals and humans, especially in the U.S., during research into behavior modification, and brain and body functioning. Mind control (MC) methods were used in attempt to change human behavior and attitudes. Influencing brain functions became an important goal of military and intelligence services.
Thirty years ago brain implants showed up in xrays the size of one centimeter. Subsequent implants shrunk to the size of a grain of rice. They were made of silicon, later still of gallium arsenide. Today they are small enough to be inserted into the neck or back, and also intraven-ously in different parts of the body during surgical operations, with or without the consent of the subject. It is now almost impossible to detect or remove them.
It is technically possible for every newborn to be injected with a micro-chip, which could then function to identify the person for the rest of his or her life. Such plans are secretly being discussed in the U.S. without any public airing of the privacy issues involved. In Sweden, Prime Minister Olof Palme gave permission in 1973 to implant prisoners, and Data Inspection's ex-Director General Jan Freese revealed that nursing-home patients were implanted in the mid- 1980's. The technology is revealed in the 1972:47 Swedish state report, STATENS OFFICIELLA UTRADNINGER (SOU).
Implanted human beings can be followed anywhere. Their brain functions can then be remotely monitored by supercomputers and even altered through the changing of frequencies. Guinea-pigs in secret experiments have in-cluded prisoners, soldiers, mental patients, handicapped children, deaf and blind people, homosexuals, single women, the elderly, school children and any group of people considered "marginal" by the elite experimenters. The published experiences of prisoners in Utah State Prison, for example, are shocking to the conscience.
Today's microchips operate by means of low-frequency radio waves that target them. With the help of satellites, the implanted person can be tracked anywhere on the globe. Such a technique was among a number tested in the Iraq war, according to Dr. Carl Sanders, who invented the intell-igence-manned interface (IMI) biotic, which is injected into people. (Earlier during the Vietnam War, soldiers were injected with the Rambo chip, designed to increase adrenaline flow into the bloodstream.) The U.S. National Security Agency's (NSA) 20 billion bits/second supercomputers could now "see and hear" what soldiers experience in the battlefield with a remote monitoring system (RMS).
When a 5-micromillimeter microchip (the diameter of a strand of hair is 50 micromillometers) is placed into optical nerve of the eye, it draws neuroimpulses from the brain that embody the experiences, smells, sights and voice of the implanted person. Once transferred and stored in a computer, these neuroimpulses can be projected back to the person's brain via the microchip to be re-experienced. Using a RMS, a land-based computer operator can send electromagnetic messages (encoded as signals) to the nervous system, affecting the target's performance. With RMS, healthy persons can be induced to see hallucinations and to hear voices in their heads.
Every thought, reaction, hearing and visual observation causes a certain neurological potential, spikes, and patterns in the brain and its elect- romagnetic fields, which can now be decoded into thoughts, pictures and voices. Electromagnetic stimulation can therefore change a person's brainwaves and affect muscular activity, causing painful muscular cramps experienced as torture.
The NSA's electronic surveillance system can simultaneously follow and handle millions of people. Each of us has a unique bioelectrical reson- ance frequency in the brain, just like we have unique fingerprints. With electro-magnetic frequency (EMF) brain stimulation fully coded, pulsating electromagnetic signals can be sent to the brain, causing the desired voice and visual effects to be experienced by the target. This is a form of electronic warfare. U.S. astronauts were implanted before they were sent into space so their thoughts could be followed and all their emotions could be registered 24 hours a day.
The Washington Post reported in in May 1995 that Prince William of Great Britain was implanted at the age of 12. Thus, if he were ever kidnapped, a radiowave with a specific frequency could be targeted to his microchip. The chips signal would be routed through a satellite to the computer screen of police headquarters, where the Princes movements could be followed. He could actually be located anywhere on the globe.
The mass media have not reported that an implanted person's privacy van- ishes for the rest of his or her life. S/he can be manipulated in many ways. Using different frequencies, the secret controller of this equip- ment can even change a person's emotional life. S/he can be made aggress- ive or lethargic. Sexuality can be artificially influenced. Thought sig-nals and subconscious thinking can be read, dreams affected and even induced, all without the knowledge or consent of the implanted person.
A perfect cyber-soldier can thus be created. This secret technology has been used by military forces in certain NATO countries since the 1980's without civilian and academic populations having heard anything about it. Thus, little information about such invasive mind-control systems is available in professional and academic journals.
The NSA's Signals Intelligence can remotely monitor information from human brains by decoding the evoked potentials (3.50HZ, 5 milliwatt) emitted by the brain. Prisoner experimentees in both Gothenburg, Sweden and Vienna, Austria have been found to have [missing word] brain lesions. Diminished blood circulation and lack of oxygen in the right temporal frontal lobes result where brain implants are usually operative. A Finnish experimentee experienced brain atrophy and intermittent attacks of unconsciousness due to lack of oxygen.
Mind control techniques can be used for political purposes. The goal of mind controllers today is to induce the targeted persons or groups to act against his or her own convictions and best interests. Zombified individ-uals can even be programmed to murder and remember nothing of their crime afterward. Alarming examples of this phenomenon can be found in the U.S.
This silent war is being conducted against unknowing civilians and sold-iers by military and intelligence agencies. Since 1980 electronic stim- ulation of the brain (ESB) has been secretly used to control people tar-geted without their knowledge or consent. All international human rights agreements forbid nonconsensual manipulation of human beings even in pri-sons, not to speak of civilian populations. Under an initiative of U.S. Senator John Glenn, discussions commenced in January 1997 about the dan-gers of radiating civilian populations. Targeting peoples brain functions with electromagnetic fields and beams (from helicopters and airplanes, satellites, from parked white vans, neighboring houses, telephone poles, electrical appliances, mobil phones, TV, radio, etc.), is part of the radiation problem that should be addressed in democratically elected government bodies.
In addition to electronic MC, chemical methods have also been developed. Mind-altering drugs and different smelling gasses affecting brain function negatively can be injected into air ducts or water pipes. Also, bacteria and viruses have been tested this way in several countries.
Today's supertechnology, connecting our brain functions via microchips (or even without them, according to the latest technology) to computers via satellites in the U.S. or Israel, poses the gravest threat to human-ity. The latest supercomputers are powerful enough to monitor the whole worlds population. What will happen when people are tempted by false premises to allow microchips into their bodies? One lure will be a micro-chip identity card. Compulsory legislation has even been secretly pro-posed in the U.S. to criminalize removal of an ID implant.
Are we ready for the robotization of mankind and the total elimination of privacy, including freedom of thought? How many of us would want to cede our entire life, including our most secret thoughts, to Big Brother? Yet the technology exists to create a totalitarian "New World Order." Covert neurological communication systems are in place to counteract independent thinking and to control social and political activity on behalf of self-serving private and military interests.
When our brain functions are already is connected to supercomputers by means of radio implants and microchips, it will be too late for protest. This threat can be defeated only by educating the public, using available literature on biotelemetry and information exchanged at international congresses.
One reason this technology has remained a state secret is the widespread prestige of the psychiatric DIAGNOSTIC STATISTICAL MANUAL IV produced by the U.S. American Psychiatric Association (APA), and printed in 18 lan-guages. Psychiatrists working for U.S. intelligence agencies no doubt participated in writing and revising this manual. This psychiatric "bible" covers up the secret development of MC technologies by labelling some of their effects as symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia.
Victims of mind control experimentation are thus routinely diagnosed, knee-jerk fashion, as mentally ill by doctors who learned the DSM symptom list in medical school. Physicians have not been schooled that patients may be telling the truth when they report being targeted against their will or being used as guinea pigs for electronic, chemical and bacteriological forms of psychological warfare.
Time is running out for changing the direction of military medicine, and ensuring the future of human freedom. -- Rauni Kilde, MD December 6, 2000 ___
MICROWAVE MIND CONTROL: MODERN TORTURE AND CONTROL MECHANISMS ELIMINATING HUMAN RIGHTS AND PRIVACY
By Dr. Rauni Leena Kilde, MD
September 25, 1999
Helsingin Sanomat, the largest newspaper in Scandinavia, wrote in the September 9, 1999 issue that Scientific American magazine estimates that after the Millenium perhaps ALL people will be implanted with a "DNA microchip".
How many people realize what it actually means? Total loss of privacy and total outside control of the person's physical body functions, men-tal, emotional and thought processes, including the implanted person's subconscious and dreams! For the rest of his life!
It sounds like science fiction but it is secret military and intelligence agencies' mind control technology, which has been experimented with for almost half a century. Totally without the knowledge of the general public and even the general academic population.
Supercomputers in Maryland, Israel and elsewhere with a speed of over 20 BILLION bits/sec can monitor millions of people simultaneously. In fact, the whole world population can be totally controlled by these secret brain-computer interactions, however unbelievable it sounds for the uninformed.
Human thought has a speed of 5,000 bits/sec and everyone understands that our brain cannot compete with supercomputers acting via satellites, implants, local facilities, scalar or other forms of biotelemetry.
Each brain has a unique set of bioelectric resonance/entrainment characteristics. Remote neural monitoring systems with supercomputers can send messages through an implanted person's nervous system and affect their performance in any way desired. They can of course be tracked and identified anywhere.
Neuro-electromagnetic involuntary human experimentation has been going on with the so-called "vulnerable population" for about 50 years, in the name of "science" or "national security" in the worst Nazi-type testing, contrary to all human rights. Physical and psychological torture of mind control victims today is like the worst horror movies. Only, unlike the horror movies, it is true.
It happens today in the USA, Japan, and Europe. With few exceptions, the mass media suppresses all information about the entire topic.
Mind control technology in the USA is classified under "non-lethal" weaponry. The name is totally misleading because the technology used IS lethal, but death comes slowly in the form of "normal" illnesses, like cancer, leukemia, heart attacks, Alzheimer's disease with loss of short term memory first. No wonder these illnesses have increased all over the world.
When the use of electromagnetic fields, extra-low (ELF) and ultra-low (ULF) frequencies and microwaves aimed deliberately at certain individ-uals, groups, and even the general population to cause diseases, disori-entation, chaos and physical and emotional pain breaks into the awareness of the general population, a public outcry is inevitable.
[Eleanor White comment: ELF/ULF frequencies on their own cannot be focussed and are practically impossible to transmit in the usual manner of radio transmissions. ELF/ULF cannot carry voice.
ELF/ULF CAN be carried on radio and ultrasound carrier signals, however, and are effective in things like setting up a target to be more receptive to hypnosis, force a target to be unable to sleep, and force a target to fall asleep daytime. This is like the reverse process of reading the brain's natural ELF/ULF electrical activity using biofeedback.]
Who is behind a sinister plan to microchip and control and torture the general population?
[Eleanor White's comment: Reports from persons targetted by neuro- electromagnetic experimentation show that not everyone is implanted. The fact that those few victims who have had implants removed cannot get custody of the implants means someone has a keen interest in controlling the use of covert implants and preventing the publication of this practice.]
The Patent Office of the U.S.A. has granted patents for purposes of mental monitoring and mind alteration.
Apparatus and method for remotely monitoring and altering brainwaves, methods for inducing mental, emotional and physical states of conscious- ness, in human beings. Method of and apparatus for desired states of consciousness are among some of them.
People who have been implanted, involuntarily or through deception vol- untarily have become bilogical robots and guinea pigs for this activity under the guise of national security.
The real consequences of microchip implantation (or with today's advanced hidden technology, using only microwave radiation for mind control,) are totally hidden from the public. How many know the real dangers of mic- rowaves through mobile phones?
How many believe the disinformation that microwave radiation is not causing health problems? The economic issues in the mobile phone industry are enormous. Therefore health issues are deliberately brushed aside.
However, the same thing is inevitable in the future as with the tobacco industry. When economic compensation for health damages becomes big enough, as in the tobacco industry, health hazards will be admitted and users are then responsible for their tobacco-related illnesses.
Today, already about 50% of Finns, Swedes and Norwegians use mobile phones, especially the young population.
Mobile phones used in mind control was a brilliant idea. Military and police agencies can follow every user, influence their thoughts through microwaves, cause healthy people to hear voices in their heads and if needed burn their brains in a second by increasing the current 20,000 times.
That probably happened to Chechnyan leader General Dudayev who died talking to a mobile phone.
Heating effect of tissues with the speed of light is a known effect of high power microwave and electromagnetic pulse weapons.
According to Navy studies they also cause fatigue states, depression, insomnia, aggressiveness, long and especially short term memory loss, short catatonic states, cataracts, leukemia, cancer, heart attacks, brain tumors and so forth.
Alteration of behavior and attitudes hs been demonstrated as well.
Dr. Ross Adey has found out that by using 0.75 milliwatts per square centimeter intensity of pulse modulated microwave at a frequency of 450 MHz it is possible to control ALL aspects of human behaviour!
Microwave radiation excites the hydrogen bond in the cells and can interfere with meiosis, which leads to tumors.
All our emotions, moods, and thoughts have a specific brain frequency which has been catalogued. If these records fall into the wrong hands, our behaviour and attitudes can be manipulated by persons whose ethics and morals are not in our best interest.
Both military and intelligence agencies have been infiltrated with such persons. The Director of the Swiss Secret Service had to resign in September 1999 because of his agency's involvement in illegal arms deals and a plan to create an ORGANIZATION within the legal Secret Service.
This globally infiltrated organization has "octopus type" activities in all major intelligence services in the world, working together with the Mafia and terrorists. It has recruited people from all important government institutions, state and local administrations.
It owns Star Wars technology which is used against military and civilian populations, claiming it is "non-lethal" weaponry.
"Down and out" people, jobless, freed prisoners, mental outpatients, students and orphans are trained by this organization to harass, follow, and torture innocent people, who for whatever reason have been put on the organization's hit list. They are ALREADY in every apartment block!
[Eleanor White comment: This gang-like colour-coding is not reported in all areas. Dr. Kilde's experience is with northern Europe.]
Deception is the name of the game, so recruits are told untrue sinister stories of their victims to keep them motivated. They have a military order and get rewarded for their evil actions, which include Satanism, and symbols and yellow-orange-black colors. However, fresh recruits must wear pink - and the highest elite wears yellow ties with dark suits.
Even dashes of yellow or orange in their ties may signal their recruitment as well as yellow shirts or other objects with that color for signalling.
Too many world leaders fit into this signalling. However, it is quite possible they are only used as fronts for this global organization without any knowledge of it's criminal activity in the field against innocent people. Mass media and big industry are also infiltrated.
Who are the targets? Experimentation with soldiers and prisoners may continue, as well as handicapped children, mental patients, homosexuals and single women. They are still experimental guinea pigs for electronic and chemical warfare. But today ANYONE can become a target, even those who invented the system.
Researchers who find out about this secret radiation of the population become targets themselves.
The U.S. Senate discussed the issue on January 22, 1997. The U.S. Air Force's "Commando Solo" aircraft have been used to send subliminal radio frequency messages to manipulate even the minds of foreign nations in their elections. Haiti and Bosnia are a couple of recent examples.
In July 1994 the U.S. Department of Defense proposed the use of "non-lethal" weapons against anyone engaged in activities the DoD opposes. Thus opposing political views, economic competitors, counterculture individuals and so forth can be beamed to sickness or death.
The Psychiatric Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM) for mental disorders has been a brilliant cover up operation in 18 languages to hide the atrocities of military and intelligence agencies' actions towards their targets. THE MANUAL LISTS ALL MIND CONTROL ACTIONS AS SIGNS OF PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA.
If a target is under surveillance with modern technology via TV, radio, telephone, loudspeakers, lasers, microwaves, poisoned with mind altering drugs via airducts, giving familiar smells which cause headache, nausea and so forth, if he claims his clothes are poisoned, his food or tap water as well --- all medical schools teach their students that the person is paranoid, ESPECIALLY if he believes intelligence agencies are behind it all.
Never is the medical profession told that these are routine actions all over the world by intelligence agencies against their targets. Thus, victims of mind control are falsely considered mentally ill and get no help since they are not believed and their suffering is doubled by ignorant health professionals.
The unethical abuses of power by individuals in charge of biomedical telemetry are incomprehensible to normal people.
The goal of mind control is to program an individual to carry out any mission of espionage or assassination even against their will and self- preservation instict and to control the absolute behavior and thought patterns of the individual. The purpose of mind control is to disrupt memory, discredit people through aberrant behavior, to make them insane or to commit suicide or murder.
How is it possible that this technology is not stopped by political top authorities? They themselves will also be targets someday, a fact they have not always realized. How much are they involved?
This year the 1999 European Parliament in "Resolution on Environment, Security, and Forein Policy", in paragraphs 23, 24, and 27 calls for "non-lethal" weapons technology and development of new arms strategies to be covered and regulated by international conventions.
Also, it calls for an international convention introducing a GLOBAL BAN on all developments and deployments of weapons which might enable ANY FORM OF MANIPULATION OF HUMAN BEINGS.
Project HAARP in Alaska is a global concern, and calls for it's legal, ecological, and ethical implications to be examined by an international independent body before any further research and testing.
It is possible that the USA will ignore those resolutions. The dangers of non-lethal mind control weapons were already revealed in an expert meeting of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, in July 1994.
Only increased public awareness of the microchip implants, their frightful consequences to privacy by influencing of individuals' thoughts and actions, causing people to become biological robots with physical and emotional pain whenever the supercomputer technician so wishes, is enough reason to refuse to take the chip into your body for whatever reason.
It is the biggest threat to humanity and the most sinister plan to enslave the human race forever.
If you have a choice and want to remain a normal human being with privacy, do not have your children nor yourself implanted with a DNA microchip. Otherwise your vision, hearing, sensing, thoughts, dreams and subconscious will be influenced by an outsider, who does not have your best interests in mind.
MICROWAVE MIND CONTROL WITH "NON-LETHAL" WEAPONS IS THE BIGGEST CRIME IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND AGAINST THE POPULATION OF PLANET EARTH. IT MUST BE STOPPED BY ALL PEOPLES OF THIS GLOBE.
Recommended reading: Mind Controllers, Dr. Armen Victorian, 1999, UK Mind Control, World Control, Jim Keith, 1997, USA Microwave Mind Control, Tim Rifat, The Truth Campaign, winter 1998, UK.
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